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your product or ingredient and, conversely, that your product or ingredient doesn’t contain anything that it shouldn’t.’ ACD/Labs’ flagship ACD/Spectrus
platform has been designed to collect, analyse and interpret live spectrometry and chromatography analyses on samples, and to generate data that comply with regulatory requirements. However, what sets Spectrus apart from other soſtware, is the ability to store, manage and manipulate raw data that comes out of the analytical instrumentation, rather than generate dead data in the form of PDF files, claims Hans de Bie, director of informatics at ACD/Labs. ‘Spectrus can store, search, and display analytical spectra and chemical structures as well as the full range of chemical and analytical results and metadata. Tis means that you can compare or overlay analytical results from the testing of different batches, for example, or search for particular peaks. Tis ability to search and compare can help in the identification of any anomalous peaks more quickly, which is not possible with an image stored as a PDF.’
Unifying data Te Spectrus soſtware supports multiple analytical techniques and is compatible with just about every file format from most major instrument vendors, providing the ability to unify data in one repository. Te soſtware can be integrated with an existing LIMS, is customisable to workflow requirements, and has the flexibility to create the standardised forms and reports needed for many regulatory purposes, and to manage data access and security, ACD/ Labs claims. Companies in diverse fields including
An integrated informatics solution like SampleManager LIMS, delivering method execution, laboratory and data management, is one of the most critical investments any petrochemical company can make to improve production efficiencies, quality control, and the data required for an evolving regulatory environment
into SampleManager provide functionality that will reduce the need to purchase add- on soſtware packages, and also facilitate integrating the SampleManager platform seamlessly with companies’ existing informatics infrastructures.’
Identifying risks and hazards Identifying risks hazards, and controlling and verifying the quality of your materials and processes are the two primary areas
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that regulation is focused on, points out Graham McGibbon, manager, scientific solutions and partnerships at ACD/ Labs. ‘Whether you are concerned with a late-stage developmental or approved pharmaceutical or a fragrance sample, there will be a regulatory requirement to demonstrate that each batch of material is produced using the correct process and workflows, and prove that whatever you expect to be in your product is actually in
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the pharmaceutical, food, agrochemical, fragrance, and chemical industries are harnessing ACD/Spectrus to import, process, and store regulatory-compliant analytical data on manufactured and late- stage developmental products, McGibbon continues. ‘One of our clients in the field of fragrances, for example, has implemented Spectrus as a fully automated quality assurance system that interacts with an existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to log and track samples, assess quality and generate reports. What is evident is that the ability to
generate and electronically store and mine increasing amounts of data is fuelling the requirement for increasing amounts of information at the regulatory level, Termo Fisher’s Colin Turston continues. In the past it may only have been necessary
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