Many industries, from aerospace to medical devices, conduct cleaning procedures.

The biggest benefit that has been brought about by the compulsory labelling of allergens in food is the greater degree of cooperation that has been established between food manufacturers and their suppliers.

Our oral pharmaceutical product is packaged by a range of contract packaging companies. Adverse properties of the final packaged product from one particular company indicate that the product shelf life is shorter than it should be. It has been suggested that this could be related to gas filling issues. Is this anything that surface analysis could clarify?

Drug products subjected to degradation because of environmental stresses can be salvaged if proper packaging and protection is provided by sorbents.

Twenty years ago it was commonplace for pills, tablets and capsules to come in small, plastic or even glass bottles. Syrups were a much more common galenic solution than today, and individual dosages of injectables were only offered in glass vials and ampoules.