Quality Control – Vision Inspection Systems | Automated Vision Inspection for Parenteral Closures

West’s Peg Frandolig and Lynn Lundy share how vision inspection systems can help drug product manufacturers and packaging suppliers work together to regulate foreign and particulate matter in finished drug products in the December/January issue of Pharmaceutical Formulation & Quality. Manufacturers of sterile drug products are confronted with increasing quality standards to produce defect-free products, reduce [...]

Visual Inspection Can Help Spot Counterfeit Drug Products

Counterfeit drug products represent a growing issue for the health care industry and pose and increasing threat to patients.  The problem is so prevalent that the World Health Organization has established the International Medical Products Anti Counterfeiting Task Force (IMPACT) to combat counterfeit drugs on a global level. In its BEWARE Toolkit for health care [...]

West to Present at the PDA 2011 Visual Inspection Forum, Oct 3-6, 2011

Join West’s Peg Frandolig, Technical Customer Support Manager, at the PDA 2011 Visual Inspection Forum, Oct 3-6, 2011, where she will present a poster on the verification process. Good pharmaceutical practice requires the individual physical inspection of drug product container closure systems in order to reject those showing evidence of contamination with visible foreign material. [...]