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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Packing Sourcer
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| One of the main challenges in the pharmaceutical industry is the ability to
produce stable drug formulations. This is especially demanding as many active
pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) respond unstably to oxidation, moisture or pH.
Generally, excipients are the major component of any given drug formulation. In the
past, pharmaceutical excipients have been viewed as ‘inert’ ingredients that played
an insignificant role in the stability of formulations containing APIs. This view is now
changing as pharmaceutical formulators have gained a greater awareness of the
importance of excipient purity. Excipient impurities can accelerate the degradation of
the API as well as destabilising emulsions, causing skin and cellular irritation (1,2)
and promoting gelatin cross-linking (3) in both soft gelatin and hard gelatin capsules. |
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Nigel Langley, PhD, is currently Technical Director – Health
Care for Croda Inc, Edison, New Jersey. He obtained a BSC
Hons and PhD from the University of Hull, UK and then
undertook a two-year Postdoctoral project (natural product
synthesis) at Leeds University, UK. He joined Croda in 1984
and has held various technical positions in four Croda
Companies. He spent three years as Technical Director of
Croda Japan before joining Croda Inc (USA) in 2001. Nigel’s
research interests are in lipid chemistry both for Pharmaceutical and Personal Care
applications.
Karen H Chen is currently Marketing Manager of Health Care
at Croda Inc (USA). She holds a Bachelors degree in Biology
and Chemistry from Rutgers University and a Masters degree
in Cosmetic Science from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She
began her career in the cosmetic industry as a personal care
formulator at Johnson & Johnson and a skin care formulator at
Avon Products. She later moved into technical sales for Biosil
Technologies and Wacker Chemical Corporation prior to her
start at Croda Inc (USA) as the Marketing Manager of Skin Care and Makeup. Karen
is active in the New York Chapter of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists (NYSCC)
having held the positions of Treasurer and Photographer, a position she currently
occupies. In addition she also serves on the NYSCC Supplier’s Day Committee and
the NYSCC Scholarship Committee. |
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CPhI Worldwide
5-7 October 2010, Paris, France
CPhI Worldwide was launched in 1990 as an international convention on pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates. This inaugural CPhI attracted 250 visitors for the 16 exhibitors. Today this has grown to an unrivalled 25,000 industry professionals visiting some 1,430 exhibiting companies from over 125 countries. CPhI is the leading exhibition on pharmaceutical ingredients and allied industries. Each year the exhibition grows larger with exhibitors and visitors conducting significant levels of business at CPhI.
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