Featured Articles

  1. The Importance Of A Human Centered Approach To Product Development

    To meet the needs of patients, life-saving device innovations are needed for the next generation of delivery devices. As drug manufacturers explore the device world, human factors are a key consideration.

  2. De-Risking Visible Particles Through Component Selection

    Explore a summary of the FDA’s recent draft guidance “Inspection of Injectable Products for Visible Particulates” and how it applies to components.

  3. Container Closure Integrity: A Risk-Based Approach

    Container closure integrity is essential to protecting drug product and satisfying regulatory agencies. A risk-based approach enables creation of a robust data file for timely approval of regulatory applications.

  4. The Importance Of Strategic Alliance Partners

    Complex drug delivery systems require teamwork between biopharmaceutical companies and their drug delivery technology partners to develop innovative platforms for patient use. These alliance partners must ensure self-administered therapies are safe, easy to use, and effective. 

  5. Design Success Combined With Expertise In Testing And Raw Material Selection

    Learn more about improvements and optimized benefits across the packaging attributes required for performance, quality, and safety of the packaging and delivery of lyophilized drug products.

  6. FDA Hopes To Spur More ANDA Pre-Submission Meetings During GDUFA III

    The FDA believes a pre-submission meeting when a complex generic application has unusual elements will lead to more first-cycle approvals. Learn more communication enhancements in GDUFA III.

  7. Gene Therapy: Maintaining Sterility At Low Temperature Storage

    A gene therapy for pediatric Spinal Muscular Atrophy required a leak and break-resistant container which maintains sterility over product shelf life, through freeze and defrost cycles.

  8. How To Address Challenges In Oncology Drug Containment

    Drug product containment systems comprising Daikyo Crystal Zenith® cyclic olefin polymer (COP) vials, matched with NovaPure® stoppers, offer container closure integrity (CCI) performance that has been quantified for oxygen and carbon dioxide, and they have excellent system performance. 

  9. Key Considerations For Selecting Flexible Fillers

    Flexible fillers are beneficial to drug developers looking for lifecycle management of their drug products. Explore key considerations for selecting flexible fill/finish manufacturing technologies.

  10. Is It Ever Too Soon To Start Your Extractables And Leachables Assessment?

    Learn what you need to know about planning for your extractables and leachables testing programs to mitigate delays to your drug development timelines.