Mettler Toledo Provides a Pharmaceutical Weighing Guide to Improve Efficiency

Mettler Toledo have produced a free second-edition pharmaceutical weighing guide which focuses on five typical lab workflows. The guide provides useful tips to improve balance operation, optimize material handling and enhance productivity while maintaining regulatory compliance in today’s busy pharmaceutical R&D, quality-control, or production lab.

In the highly competitive pharmaceutical industry, there is intense focus on laboratory efficiency. However, there are also stringent regulations to adhere to. Second edition of the weighing guide, “Efficient Workflows in the Pharmaceutical Industry”, is designed to help laboratories maintain regulatory compliance and optimize lab performance.

The guide discusses how careful lab-procedure analysis, elimination of inefficiencies, and - as much as possible - standardization of processes are keys to achieving both optimum performance and excellent accuracy. These actions remain constant regardless of the oversight system a lab adheres to, including Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).

The updated and expanded edition of the guide includes five workflows:

• Capsule filling
• Culture media preparation
• Titration sample preparation
• Reference standards and solutions preparation, and
• Quantitative elemental analysis sample preparation

Challenges inherent to each workflow such as repetitive actions, tight tolerances, user ergonomics and process hygienics are discussed in detail. Solutions such as process changes, special accessories and automation are then reviewed, allowing the reader to determine the level of handling required in their lab. Data integrity, connectivity and workflow guidance are also discussed.

Download the Efficient Workflows in the Pharmaceutical Industry Guide here.