RTS Launches SolidPrep™ System Enabling 90% Time Saving in Tablet Sample Preparation

RTS Life Science, a worldwide supplier of automated sample management and drug delivery testing systems, today announces the launch of RTS SolidPrep™, a groundbreaking new line of tablet sample preparation solutions. RTS SolidPrep™ provides high speed preparation of tablets and other solid dose pharmaceuticals for assay, impurity and dose content uniformity applications. Using the SolidPrep™ most laboratories will be able to achieve at least three times the throughput when compared to current manual methods. This improvement in efficiency gives a typical payback period of less than two months.

This scalable product line from RTS Life Science is available as a Benchtop or Automated system, both of which will be unveiled on booth 2106 at the 35th Annual Meeting & Exposition of the Controlled Release Society, 12-16 July, Hilton Hotel, New York.

As well as dramatically reducing sample preparation time by 90%, RTS SolidPrep™ provides benefits including significant reductions in solvent use and waste, and reproducible homogenization without localized heating or increased drug degradation. In addition, this innovative patent pending solution offers disposable in-vessel processing, eliminating the need to find and clean glassware and significantly reducing the risk of sample cross talk and operator drug exposures.

The RTS SolidPrep™ is available to purchase from April 2008 as an evaluation package. The evaluation package contains the RTS SolidPrep™ homogenization instrument, a six tube capacity processing head, all consumables required during the evaluation period together with consultancy and support from RTS Life Science. SolidPrep™ is proven to dramatically improve efficiency and quality in tablet sample preparation.

The evaluation package allows customers to easily evaluate the RTS SolidPrep™ process, with only minor changes to existing manual analytical methods. By proving the technology is a cost effective solution on the bench, customers can fast track subsequent adoption of the automated SolidPrep™ system where appropriate. The RTS SolidPrep™ system, in common with all RTS products, is based around robust and industrial quality engineering.

To be among the first to see this revolutionary new development from RTS Life Science please visit them at 35th Annual Meeting & Exposition of the Controlled Release Society, 12-16 July, Hilton Hotel, New York.