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Australia: Christmas/New Year Operating Times - Dec 2011
1 December 2011
This has been a landmark year for ALS Food & Pharmaceutical with the acquisition of EML Pty Ltd growing our capabilities in both the Food and Pharmaceutical Sectors.
As the Christmas/New Year season is upon us we would like to advise you of our operational times over this period.
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Australia: PharmaMail #14 - Iodine, Silicon and General Elemental Analysis
14 October 2011
Elemental analysis is a routine requirement in the Pharmaceutical and Veterinary industries. Typically, Elemental Analysis is undertaken for the purpose of heavy metal screening in raw materials, and the accurate determination of trace quantities in finished products. Reliable quantitative analysis in the presence of interfering background components can be problematic for trace level determinations.
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Food & Pharmaceutical Division News
16 September 2011
The ALS Australia Food/Pharmaceutical Division is currently in the midst of a very exciting period of integration and transition.
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Australia: PharmaMail #13 - USP: Heavy Metals by ICP-OES and ICP-MS
17 June 2011
Two new chapters in the US Pharmacopoeia, ‘USP 232 Elemental Impurities – Limits’ and ‘USP 233 Elemental Impurities – Procedure’ propose that testing for heavy metals in pharmaceutical products can now be performed by Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES) and Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS).
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Australia: ALS Acquires EML Pty Ltd
1 June 2011
On Wednesday 1 June 2011 ALS completed the acquisition of EML Pty
Ltd, with operations in Sydney (Rydalmere) and Melbourne (Surrey
Hills). ALS did not acquire other businesses carrying the EML name –
EML (Air), EML (Chem) and EML Queensland Operations.
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Europe: Dioxin Capabilities in Food and Feed
9 March 2011
ALS offers ideal conditions fulfilling Commission Regulation 1881/2006 amended and 2002/70/EC amended for food/feed quality monitoring. The European Union, in its Commission Directive 2006/13/EC for animal feeds, Commission Regulation 199/2006 for food and Recommendation 2006/88/EC for feed and food, sets maximum acceptable levels and action levels.
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Australia: PharmaMail #12 - Stability Requirements
6 January 2011
Effective 1 July 2010 the TGA adopted the PIC/S Guide to Good Manufacturing Practice (15 January 2009, PE 009-8) as the current GMP code. A significant change for manufacturers of medicinal products in the new code is the requirement to have detailed procedures on stability testing and annual product quality reviews (PQR).
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