Articles in this Issue
Any parenteral therapy theoretically carries a risk of bacterial endotoxins contamination which can result in a number of physiological responses in humans, including fever. It is ...
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Purification is a necessary phase in pharmaceutical drug manufacturing in order to eliminate unwanted materials that can be hazardous or which will compromise drug efficacy. This ...
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There was a time when medical devices were largely pieces of extruded or molded plastic. In fact, until recently, the name of USP chapter describing pyrogen and endotoxin testing ...
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The methods that are currently defined in the harmonized Bacterial Endotoxins Testing (BET) chapters are all based on the use of animal derived lysates of amebocytes (either ...
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The texts of the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) play a major role in ensuring the quality of medicines in Europe. They consist in general chapters and monographs, which are ...
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Bacterial Endotoxin Testing (BET) is mandatory for detection of Endotoxin/ Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) in parenteral drug products. This is important as LPS is one of the most potent...
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