Products & Reviews

A significant number of procedures performed during inhaler testing are highly repetitive and their performance can lead to bottlenecks which compromise overall laboratory operations and efficiency. Relatively simple and inexpensive sample recovery tools have been designed to alleviate such problems and to ensure testing is carried out in a consistent, reproducible and controlled fashion. The NGI Gentle Rocker, for examp…

In 1997, a group of prominent pharmaceutical companies came together in the form of a consortium with the express intent of developing a new impactor specifically for inhaled and nasal products. The result, the Next Generation Impactor (NGI), was launched in 2000 and subsequently accepted into the Pharmacopoeias in 2005. The NGI has seven stages, five of which are in the range 0.5 to 5 microns plus a micro-orifice collector w…