bioMérieux announces U.S. FDA Clearance for VITEK® MS, a revolutionary technology which reduces microbial identification from days to minutes. Further details can be found here.
The Rapid Microbiological Methods database in the member area of our working group was updated with 3 new systems. For more information please see this news.
With this guidance, the FDA addresses blood establishments that collect Whole Blood and blood components for transfusion or for further manufacture. Read on.
On November 1st, 2012, the MycoTOOL® PCR Mycoplasma Detection Kit-based test from Roche Applied Science was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for release testing of a Roche biopharmaceutical product. More details here.
A international team of researchers, with it’s core at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has prepared a guide to assist the scientific community in the quality control process. Find out more.
The Vice-Chair of the USP General Chapters – Microbiology Expert Committee, Tony Cundell, recently provided an update to the chapter’s revision process and what we should see when the draft is published in a future issue of the Pharmacopeial Forum. Read more.
New applications should improve the efficiency of microbial quality control processes while significantly reducing the time-to-result. More details can be found here.
The EMA/CHMP published an assessment report - on detected genomic fragments from endogenous and adventitious viral agents in live attenuated vaccines. More details can be found here.
The Rapid Microbiological Methods database in the member area of our working group was updated with 4 new systems, e.g. for sterility testing and Endotoxin detection. More details can be found here.
