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The recent Pharmapack meeting in Paris provided a great global overview of the latest in pharmaceutical packaging and delivery. This meeting involved not only the traditional tradeshow, but presentations from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies as well as from companies offering packaging and delivery systems.
Three key market trends were observed:
Awareness and anticipation of market and regulatory trends is an important aspect of West’s commitment to safe and efficient delivery of drug products. For more on how West can support, contact an Account Manager or Technical Customer Service (TCS) representative.
An extraction study is sometimes thought of by customers as an expensive and time-consuming exercise for filing. However, extractables studies are more than that. Performing an extraction study provides a thorough understanding of the materials used. It is a study that takes into account the primary packaging components and provides an understanding of the chemical species that may potentially come out over the shelf-life of a product.
At West, we are by the side of our team members - supporting your training and development needs, providing opportunities to advance in your career and reach your full potential, while maintaining your well-being and work-life balance. In our Team Member Spotlight, learn more about what it is like to work at West and hear about the experiences and careers of some of our team members around the world.
With the prevalence of Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) rapidly increasing globally, West is working with its pharmaceutical partners to support their development of new injectable treatments for this serious liver condition. However, there are many challenges associated with trying to bring new treatments to market.<br />
The two most common means of sterilizing elastomeric parenteral packaging components are steam autoclave and gamma irradiation processes. When appropriately validated, both processes are very effective at eliminating concerns around microbial contamination of the components used for container closure of sterile liquid, lyophilized or powder drug products. Despite the ability of both methods to reach the required sterilization specifications and requirements, the overall impact that these processes have on the elastomeric component can be quite different.
Leachables are chemical species that migrate from packaging or other components into the drug product under normal conditions. Request for the leachables data is typically raised on dossier submission and/or during audits.
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