Metal detector, cornerstone in quality management

IDENTIFYING the source of contamination and maintaining quality norms and standards of hygiene can help manufacture safe and quality products stipulated to government norms.

- Dr D Mandal

Metal detector is a key cornerstone in quality control (QC) management for pharmaceutical processing sector. Metal detection forms a key part of product quality assurance (QA) in pharmaceuticals and helping to prove the quality of manufacturing process and compliance with regulations.

Currently available metal detectors utilize latest digital signal processing technology to detect and reject ferrous and nonferrous metals. Latest pharmaceutical detectors have advantages such as highest processing power, superior speed, accuracy with additional features like current good manufacturing practices, design and construction suited for the US health regulatory compliance and meet the demanding quality standards required by the industry.

Advancing quality inspection system

Pharmaceutical products safety norms and legislation continue to come under highly increasing scrutiny. Thorough risk assessments are enabled by the separation and speciation of elements in a drug product, allowing for more detailed evaluations of both the benefits and risks presented by elements within a particular sample.

More and more studies demonstrate that free elements and various bound states differ greatly in toxicity, the speciation of elements will become even more critical almost any stage of drug development and manufacturing, impurities, contaminants, and residuals can be introduced into pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals.

The presence of elemental impurities in raw materials, APIs, drug product, and packaging materials can cause significant disruption to even the most robust path-to-market, as drug products will not comply with necessary regulations to ensuring product safety and efficacy.