Mass Spectrometry & Spectroscopy 7 Faster Analysis Times for Pharma Raw Materials
Cobalt Light Systems is proud to announce RapID, a pioneering instrument for the identification of raw materials through the side of the unopened packaging. The pharmaceutical industry spends significant time and resource on verifying the identity of raw materials before they enter the manufacturing process. Accurate QC of these materials is essential and can be very time consuming, expensive and resource intensive. RapID offers significant cost savings because most raw materials can now be accurately identified without even opening the packaging.
Cobalt has successfully developed a patented technique known as Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS) which is at the heart of the RapID system. A key advantage of SORS is that it can measure a highly-specific Raman spectrum of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API’s) and excipients through unopened sacks, bottles, coloured glass and opaque plastic containers. RapID supersedes the entire notion of opening bags or bottles of raw material to take a sample which is then sent to the QC lab for testing. With RapID the process of verifying the material and getting it into manufacturing is faster, more cost effective and can be done as soon as the goods hit the loading bay. Operation is by non-scientific personnel with a simple, hand-held ‘point and shoot’ measurement tool.
100% testing of raw materials is a regulatory requirement for companies selling products in Europe and is likely to be mandatory in other parts of the world soon. These changes put ever greater demands on manufacturers to find ways of improving efficiencies throughout the value chain. Thanks to SORS, RapID offers a unique set of features developed specifically for the validation of pharmaceutical raw materials, while also providing a surprisingly fast return on investment.
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OFweek’s 2012 Best LED Service Supplier Award in China Announced
Ocean Optics has recently been recognised with an ‘OFweek 2012 Best LED Service Supplier Award’ by China’s high technology portal OFweek photonics news.
Since its entry into the Chinese market, Ocean Optics has contributed to the growth of China’s LED industry. The inventor of the world’s first miniature spectrometer provides photometry and colorimetry solutions to the complete LED manufacturing chain. Established in 2007, Ocean Optics Asia supports the company’s distributors and customers in the Pacific Rim with a team of application, sales and software engineers.
Ocean Optics was chosen for the OFweek honour from a pool of 200 nominated companies selected by the editors of OFweek. A total of 38 companies were recognised with awards in 10 categories, chosen by a panel of LED experts as well as online voting by LED professionals. Winners were announced during the 9th LED Pioneering Technology & Marketing Seminar at the 2012 Best LED Enterprises & Products Award Ceremony organised by OFweek photonics news.
Dr Sun Ling, Vice President of Ocean Optics Asia said, “We feel so proud to be conferred the Best LED Service Supplier Award by OFweek. This honour encourages our expert team to strive towards ever- higher standards and deliver even better services to our customers in China and Asia Pacific.”
“China’s LED industry has enjoyed fast growth with ever higher demand for testing speed and diversity. This makes it imperative for us to work more closely with system integrators and end users,” Dr Sun added.
Ocean Optics’ solutions for quantifying light meet a number of parameter measurement and quality monitoring challenges on factory production lines. Its products cover the complete LED manufacturing chain – from epitaxial wafer and wafer material probing, to chip sorting, to the testing of finished LEDs – accurately and efficiently measuring and controlling wavelength, thinness, reflectance, transmittance, colour temperature, and colour purity.
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