Analytical Applications.

Developing methods to analyze drug substances and finished drug products is crucial for ensuring the quality of a pharmaceutical product. These methods are used to identify and characterize active pharmaceutical ingredients and excipients as well as for detecting and quantfiying impurities, other solid forms, and the quality of in-process materials used in a manufacturing process. Several industry experts describe applications in pharmaceutical analysis. Jonathan Yourkin, global pharmaceutical product manager with GE Analytical Instruments, discusses on-line total organic carbon analysis. Simon Robinson, high-performance liquid chromotagraphy product manager at Shimadzu Scientific Instruments examines ultra-fast liquid chromatography. Lari Daane, PhD, vice-president of Celsis Rapid Detection, and Judy Madden, vice-president of Celsis International, discuss rapid microbial testing. Kevin Menard PhD, business manager of thermal analysis at PerkinElmer, explains differential scanning calorimetry-Raman spectroscopy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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