Archive for the ‘Regulatory’ Category

SAFC Presents at the Upcoming ICH Q3D Metal Impurities Workshop in Bethesda, Maryland

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

From April 4-5, 2012, delegates will gather at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland for the two day ICH Q3D Metal Impurities Workshop that will feature a program focused on the new limits for element impurities in drug products and how they may impact businesses in the pharma industry.

On Wednesday, April 4th at 9am, SAFC Quality Assurance Director, Patty Benson, will participate in a panel titled “Perspectives From Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Suppliers”, along with a lineup of speakers from industry colleagues, the IPEC-Americas, CHPA and SOCMA’s Bulk Pharmaceutical Task Force (BPTF) to discuss the draft guidelines and implications data will have, as well as the impact on pharmaceuticals. Patty’s input from an API maker’s perspective will be complemented with an excipient user perspective from Janeen Skutnik-Wilkinson, Director of Quality and Regulatory Policy at Pfizer Inc. and an excipient maker perspective from David Schoneker, Director of Global Regulatory Affairs at Colorcon.

We hope to see you there to learn, network and exchange information amongst industry peers. To learn more about registration for the event, please click here. To learn more about SAFC, please click here.

SAFC at CPhI Japan 2012

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

SAFC Manager, Toru Kobayashi, accepts an award of recognition for ten years of exhibiting at the CPhI Japan event.

CPhI Japan 2012 got underway today and SAFC is onsite as an exhibitor (located at Booth H-16) and presenter. This year, the show celebrates it’s 10th anniversary and event organizers, UBM Live, took time to recognize the exhibiting companies that have been there since the beginning. SAFC is one of those companies and earlier today was recognized as part of a group of 47 exhibitors that have experienced the past ten years of CPhI Japan.

Here, SAFC Live takes a moment to talk with Toru Kobayashi, SAFC Manager for the Japan Market, about how the market has recovered from natural disaster and what the Japanese pharma, biopharma and chemicals market has in store for the future.

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SAFC at Informex 2012: The Roundup

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

 

It is hard to believe that Informex 2012 is already a month behind us. SAFC spent a productive week at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA with industry colleagues old and new. SAFC was not only an exhibitor and presenter at the show, but also took involvement one step further through a social media sponsorship that included sponsoring the Informex Networking Lounge. Over the three days in NOLA, the Lounge offered attendees with a place to meet, network and participate in social media.

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SAFC’s Dave Backer Discusses the Full Line of SAFC PharmaGrade Products and Highlights the PharmaGrade MSX Product Capabilities

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

As SAFC continues to settle into 2012, there is plenty of planning and development going on across the global SAFC network. Leading into the first big tradeshow of the year, Informex 2012 in New Orleans, LA, SAFC has been focused on introducing a new line of products that take quality and security of supply chain to another level. Below, Dave Backer, SAFC Director of Business Development and Marketing, discusses what the PharmaGrade product portfolio means for SAFC customers and why it is relevant to the market.

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BREAKING NEWS: BioReliance to Become Part of SAFC

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

 

Today, Sigma Aldrich confirmed that the newly acquired BioReliance business will become part of SAFC, the custom manufacturing and services business unit of Sigma-Aldrich. SAFC President, Gilles Cottier noted that the acquisition would serve to increase the SAFC value proposition and positively leverage the company’s industrial media presence and biological testing capabilities for end user services and solutions.

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SAFC Featured in the Informex 2012 Blog

Friday, January 27th, 2012

SAFC Marketing Manager, Nick Johnson, talks about what SAFC is bringing to the “Big Easy” in 2012 and why Informex is a key annual event for SAFC. Please click here to read the full blog.

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SAFC Gets Ready to Take on the “Big Easy” at Informex 2012!

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

SAFC wasted no time moving forward in 2012! As we ramp up for our first big show of the year, Informex 2012, we wanted to take some time to run through what we will have to offer leading up to and throughout the upcoming event in New Orleans, LA.

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