New Web Site Encourages Compliant Document Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Nottingham, UK -- Good Products, a provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries has announced the launch of a new, easy-to-use website at www.goodproductsEU.com.

Containing information on the company’s full portfolio of electronic document management solutions (eDMS), the new website has been designed to provide Good Products’ customers and partners with the knowledge they need to successfully comply with the strict regulations governing electronic documents in the pharmaceutical environment.

Good Products’ recently re-launched web portal provides both existing and prospective customers with access to the resources and knowledge that Good Products has built up through the company’s extensive experience in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors.

Website users can view information on all current and new products, as well as accessing demonstrations of g-docs™, Good Products’ proprietary eDMS, and Co-Sign® digital signature software.


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Menlo Park CA, USA -- Velocity11, an Agilent Technologies company and pioneer in automation technology solutions for life science laboratories, has announced that its 2008 user group meeting will be held in Barcelona, Spain this November 4th-7th.

At this popular meeting Velocity11 will run a comprehensive program of workshops, round table discussions and talks covering current topics in lab automation.

The meeting will, in addition, preview new applications and product combinations from Agilent and Velocity11.


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RTS Life Science Announces the Availability of ‘A New Paradigm in Sample Library Management and Replication’
Manchester, UK -- RTS Life Science, a worldwide supplier of automated sample management and drug delivery testing systems,has announced the availability of its new Sample Management and Replication technical paper.

The informative new poster is entitled, “A New Paradigm in Sample Library Management and Replication,” and discusses RTS’ innovative sample management solution Libradexx.

Finding a solution which is suitable for all library sizes, manages the regeneration and replication process and incorporates the ability to report on results, while at the same time saving money, are just some of the challenges sample management and HTS professionals face when implementing a storage management system.


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Aylesbury, UK -- Biosciences, Inc., a Magellan Biosciences company, has announced an archived version of its most recent Webinar entitled, 'Is Ion Analysis bringing You Down?' to enable chromatographers to gain insight into efficient and cost-effective strategies of ion analysis through HPLC methodologies.

The Webinar, which addresses the concerns that many chromatographers face with ion analysis, includes presentations and a Q&A session featuring ESA scientist, Dr. Ian Acworth, and industry experts from Synomics Pharmaceutical Services and Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical.

In today's drug development and manufacturing operations, one of the key analysis steps is the measurement of the amount and type of ion or counter ion present in a particular drug formulation. Currently, the analytical technique most commonly used to analyse ions is ion chromatography (IC). However, to perform these ion measurements with IC requires a specialist, expensive and dedicated single-use system. In addition, IC cannot readily measure anions and cations simultaneously.


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Mass Spectrometry Water Monitoring Technology From Thermo Fisher Scientific
JOSE CA, USA – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today responded to national concerns surrounding the discovery of pharmaceutical compounds in U.S. drinking water by publicizing its mass spectrometry water monitoring technology currently in use in Canada and Europe.

The Associated Press (AP) recently reported that a variety of prescription and over-the-counter drugs have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans. The Thermo Scientific mass spectrometry systems rapidly identify and quantify these compounds, enabling municipalities to monitor the safety of their water supplies.

Recently the University of Montreal worked with Environment Canada to identify and quantify pharmaceutical residues present in the city’s waste and drinking water. To conduct this research, the University used a Thermo Scientific EQuan™ Environmental Quantitation system incorporating the TSQ Quantum™ mass spectrometer.

The system detected six common anti-infectives in the water, including Azithromycin, a potent antibiotic used to treat certain bacterial infections in the ear, throat or sinuses. The results from this study were published by the Journal of Environmental Monitoring in March 2007 (J. Environ. Monit., 2007, 9, 307–313).


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