Environmental Health & Engineering (EH&E)

“Environmental Health and Safety Compliance in Biotech Companies: Common Deficiencies Encountered During Audits"
Biotech companies must comply with complex regulatory requirements mandated by federal, state, and local agencies. Larger firms employ full-time professional staff to manage these responsibilities. Small and mid-size firms often cannot afford the expense or dedicate the manpower to fully meet these requirements, and are at an increased risk of violations and sanctions. The white paper “Environmental Health and Safety Compliance in Biotech Companies: Common Deficiencies Encountered During Audits,” provides detailed examples of the most common violations encountered during routine audits of biotech companies and summarizes a list of recommendations for maintaining a continual high level of compliance using limited manpower. Compliance areas covered include: environmental compliance; permitting and plans; employee training; biosafety; occupational health and safety; and general documentation deficiencies. To download the white paper at no cost, go to www.eheinc.com/pitfalls.htm

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.

“Choosing the Right Instrument Vendor for Complete, Cost-Effective Compliance”
Titled “Choosing the Right Instrument Vendor for Complete, Cost-Effective Compliance,” this 19-page publication provides a thorough understanding of compliance basics to help laboratory managers, chief scientists and regulatory specialists determine the real value of an instrument vendor’s compliance capabilities and better evaluate their spectroscopy systems. Additionally, it details available processes for instrument validation, qualification and verification, while also mapping out these processes in highly regulated (cGMP, FDA), moderately regulated (GLP, ISO) and self-regulated (Six Sigma) manufacturing environments. It is available free-of-charge via www.thermo.com/comply.

PerkinElmer

“Biofuels Analysis” brochure
For laboratories already engaged in biofuels analysis or for those just starting up in this rapidly growing industry, PerkinElmer has developed a new brochure to help outline and navigate the range of analysis tools available to test biofuels according to required methods and to ensure regulatory compliance. The “Biofuels Analysis” brochure outlines the standards required to meet ASTM, EN and other compliance requirements for biodiesel and ethanol used for fuel. It also includes a comparison of various methods for bio-content analysis and information regarding robust, easy-to-use and cost-effective laboratory information management systems for efficient monitoring and reporting of critical data. To download or request a hard copy of the Biofuels Analysis brochure, visit www.perkinelmer.com/biofuelbrochure.

Norgren

Instrumentation
Customers can qualify to test drive free Norgren products by visiting www.norgren.com/testdrive to complete a brief form. The firm offers thousands of stocked and custom solutions, including actuators, valves, pneumatic motion control, fluid control, air preparation and fittings. 

Metropolitan Computing Corp. (MCC)

Tableting and Granulation End-Point Calculator
Designed for optimizing and scaling-up tableting and granulation processes, this software tool is now available as a 30-day trial version that can be downloaded at www.mcc-online.com. The tool includes tableting and granulation end-point calculators, comprehensive help, and references. Among the many features of the tableting calculator, it can evaluate at what speed different production presses can offer the minimum satisfactory consolidation time, and what tablet output can be expected from different presses at that optimal speed. It can also calculate performance efficiency factors (e.g., feeding, consolidation and ejection efficiency numbers). One of the key features of the granulation end-point calculator is its ability to determine the net impeller power for various wet mass conditions (using density, viscosity, fill ratio, mixer speed, blade radius, or Newton (power), Froude or Reynolds dimensionless numbers).

Comsol

COMSOL Conference CD 2006
Illustrating the breadth and depth of the use of computer modeling in every area of science, research, engineering, and education, the COMSOL Conference CD 2006 contains a wealth of information. The CD contains the full proceedings from an international series of 15 technical meetings, along with presentation slides and even ready-to-run model files that were discussed. To make it easy for readers to find the information they need, the CD contains a search facility plus an author index. Distributed at no charge at www.comsol.com/conference2006/cd, the disc contains 272 papers, 153 sets of user-presentation slides, 32 sets of keynote-presentation slides, and 30 models.