US FDA guidance recommends melamine testing in at risk pharmaceutical components

US FDA in august 2009 published a guidance for industry titled Pharmaceutical Components at Risk for Melamine Contamination after it received reports of food products in China been contaminated with melamine, leading to thousands of hospitalizations and at least three deaths by September 2008. Though till the time there had been no reports of pharmaceutical products [...]

LCMSMS Method for Beta-lactam Facility Decontamination

Globally their is a trend that manufacturing facilities for Beta-lactam antibiotics are being converted for the manufacture of Cephalosporin products. An important part of this changeover is to establish that there are no residues of Beta-lactams in the facility and no cross contamination of the new product range. We have developed and validated a simultaneous [...]