In a report outlining predictions for the coming year, the organization advises industry professionals to brace themselves for supply chain challenges.
Sited in Pennsylvania, the excipients specialist’s new facility reportedly will work toward advancing drug delivery research and boosting speed to market.
Bolstered by manufacturing advancements, the global revenues of the pharmaceutical excipients market are expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.8% in the coming years.
Roquette has purchased a majority stake in excipient manufacturer Crest Cellose, in an aim to increase its footprint in India’s generic pharmaceutical market.
The global excipient certification organization has announced IPEC Association (China) Limited as its fifth member, joining IPEC Europe, IPEC Americas, FECC, and PQG (UK).
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Drug excipient makers in India and those serving the market have a dedicated IPEC chapter after the delayed fifth branch of the industry group was finally formally incorporated at the end of January.
US authorities are holding more excipient imports at ports according to industry group IPEC Americas, which said that the increase has already halted the production of at least one drug.
Differences in elemental impurity standards being developed separately by the US Pharmacopeia and ICH could mean costly reformulations according to a pharmaceutical, API and excipient industry coalition.
The Chinese Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) has confirmed that drugmakers and suppliers will take on more responsibility for ensuring excipient quality under new provisions.
It’s been a busy year for API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) manufacturers with new facilities, cost pressures and regulatory developments all hitting the headlines.And it seems recent developments in HPAPIs (high potency APIs) have caused a stir...
The second draft of Excipact, a set of certification standards for drug excipient producers being developed by the EFCG, FECC, IPEC and PQD, has been sent to industry stakeholders for consultation.
The EC’s plan to make excipients comply with GMP is “still alive”, according to Cargill which spoke to in-PharmaTechnologist at CPhI about its Zerose erythritol product that it claims can improve compliance.
Asahikasei’s chemicals unit has launched three new grades of pre-gelatinized starch excipients that it claims have broad application in the control of drug release, stability and disintegration.
The International Pharmaceutical Excipient Council (IPEC) has unveiled plans to set up a worldwide Federation later this year to address the increasingly global excipient supply chain.
In an attempt to counter competition in generic active
pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from Asian manufacturers, BASF
has decided to downscale production at its Minden production site,
implementing a restructuring programme that...
Chemical firm BASF has announced it has developed a new formulation
for its Ibuprofen DC 85, an active substance in anti-inflammatory
and analgesic products, using a nanocoating which, thanks to its
resistance to high temperature,...
Germany's BASF has been awarded a US patent covering a new coating
agent, binder and/or film-forming excipient, based on
polyether-containing polymers, which can be used in pharmaceutical
formulations
