The Quality Lowdown: Cadmium, Quality Metrics, Heparin Testing And Continuous Manufacturing
Executive Summary
ICH relaxing a new limit for inhaled cadmium in drugs; FDA relaxes timeline for quality metrics site visit invitations; US FDA looks for heparin test to sort the porcine from the bovine and ovine; and universities win FDA grants for research into continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing.
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