Archaea: Underestimated Domain in Pharmaceutical Quality Control

Archaea associated with human surfaces: not to be underestimated.

Over 40 years ago, Carl Woese and his colleagues discovered the existence of two distinctly different groups of prokaryotes-Bacteria and Archaea. In the meantime, extensive research revealed that several hundred of bacterial species are intensely associated with humans' health and disease. Archaea, originally identified and described to occur mainly in extreme environments, have been shown to b...

Forecasting in Pharmaceutical Domain

Machine Vision based Quality Control: Importance in Pharmaceutical Industry

Quality is important for customer satisfaction and sale of product in the competitive market. Present day consumers have wide variety of demands and needs leading to increased complexity in variety of products. The price war, high quality, traceability, necessity of disclosure of quality, the norms and regulations, imposes the manufacturers to have flexible design with zero defects in a highly ...

Quality control of packed raw materials in pharmaceutical industry.

The possibility of routine testing of pharmaceutical substances directly in warehouses is of great importance for manufactures, especially taking into account the demands of PAT. The application of NIR instruments with remote fiber optic probe makes these measurements simple and rapid. On the other hand carrying out measurements through closed polyethylene bags is a real challenge. To make the ...

Guide to Inspections of Microbiological Pharmaceutical Quality Control Laboratories

The Guide to the Inspection of Pharmaceutical Quality Control Laboratories provided very limited guidance on the matter of inspection of microbiological laboratories. While that guide addresses many of the issues associated with the chemical aspect of laboratory analysis of pharmaceuticals, this document will serve as a guide to the inspection of the microbiology analytical process. As with any...