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This book is organized on the author's experience in a pharmaceutical company and based on various suggestions to improve the working of a pharmaceutical company across different and diverse functional areas. The book is organized upon the following topics: Manufacturing related issues and thus improve COGS (Cost of goods sold); Sourcing related to improve and streamline raw materials, packing materials, procurement and inventories etc.; Working capital related ...
This 2009 new and revised 2nd edition is now brought up-to-date with latest contemporary processing technology. The old edition has been revised thoroughly and obsolete information was deleted and necessary corrections made. New chapters on Supercritical Fluid Extraction & Ultrasonic Extraction are examples of this new development. Due to rapid development in the fields of pharmacology and bioavailability and to enhance shelf-life of products, two new ...
Injectable product manufacturing is booming because of the growth of new biopharmaceuticals and small molecule anticancer drugs. The requirements for contamination control will become even more stringent than today. Isolators or blow-fill-seal equipment have already replaced the conventional clean rooms and LAF-hoods in many production facilitities. Conventional microbiological monitoring methods, requiring 3 to 5 days of incubation will become inappropriate. ...
This text is intended to present elements of both methods and theoretical backgrounds of different aspects on quality control and standardization of herbal drugs and formulations. More emphasis has been made on classical pharmacognostical and phytochemical approaches dealing with different aspects of quality control and standardization by virtue of new techniques and these have therefore been integrated. In this respect, chemists/scientists will get some new ...
The concept of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) is well known to the pharmaceutical industry of the world, which finds expressions in many countries in regulations, codes and guides. In the era of revolution in herbal medicines throughout the world, the need of the day is the implementation of GMP in the production of botanicals, including the production of medicinal products from natural resources. Besides the widespread use of phytomedicines in developing ...
The skyrocketing cost of research for therapeutic molecules from purely synthetic chemistry, has prompted the resurgence of interest in traditional herbal medicine. While clinical usage of such herbs has been extensively documented in ancient texts, exhaustive plant profiles are lacking for most plants, especially with regard to phytochemicals and their biosynthetic pathways. This shortage of information, coupled with increasing information demands of modern ...
Chapter 1 attempts to provide a "lay of the land" and strategies to navigate through the available regulatory and market landscape, through innovation and standardization. Herbal supplements are the fastest growing segment of the nutraceuticals market in the United States. A brief potpourri of herbs from different streams of traditional medicine which have become main stay in many herbal therapies and the identified active compositions are covered in ...
Pharmaceutical Sciences in today's world is a complex and fast-evolving entity encompassing coverage of so many fields like chemistry, botany, biochemistry, microbiology, biotechnology, anatomy/physiology, medicine, research, logistics, marketing, microbiology, pharmaceutical products, production, aseptic/sterile processing, pharmaceutical engineering, quality control, quality management, regulatory affairs, corporate processes, packaging, etc. As biotechnology ...