Excipients Insight - January-February 2022
Dear Members,
As this is our first edition of Excipients Insight in 2022 and although slightly late (!), I would like to extend my best wishes to you for personal and professional success in the year ahead.
As this article reports, the Board has been busy mapping out our detailed objectives for the year in line with our Agenda 2025.
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Excipients Insight - October-December 2021
Dear Members,
Seasons’ greetings and a warm welcome to the last edition of Excipients Insight for 2021.
No doubt you’re all busy with end-of-year activities and preparing for the new year! As I reflect on the editorial issued one year ago, we were very much hoping 2021 would see something of a return to our more normal lives.
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Excipients Insight - August-September 2021
Dear Members,
We start this edition with hope, as we see that life as we knew it is knocking at our doors! Gradually we’re returning to our workplaces and it’s so pleasing to see our colleagues in 3D again. Meetings and events are slowly but surely (?) becoming live events once more.
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Excipients Insight - March-July 2021
Dear Members,
Welcome to the latest edition of Excipients Insight. While everybody is now preparing for the summer break, the Secretariat remains busy and engaged in preparing for our events and meetings in the second part of the year.
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Excipients Insight - January-February 2021
Dear Members,
Welcome to our ‘launch’ edition of Excipient Insights for 2021!
And as ever, the year began with our annual event and reflecting back on it, it was refreshing to see so many new and familiar people connected to our first virtual Forum. We had a good attendance from across our membership on both days and the highest number of non-members registered in the past five years. This confirms the validity of the agenda and that we included the right topics in terms of current and future challenges.
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Excipients Insight - September-December 2020
Dear Members,
As we are about to close out a year unlike any other, I would like to take the opportunity in this last edition of the Excipients Insight 2020 to convey my sincere thanks to all our Members, Committee Chairs and Task Force leaders for their commitment to IPEC Europe's projects. You’ve done your utmost to help us make progress in very different circumstances. And of course, I’d like to recognise our Secretariat who keeps our association running as smoothly as ever with additional challenges presented by the pandemic.
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Excipients Insight - June-July 2020
Dear Members,
As we approach the second half of the year and publish this June-July issue, we find ourselves heading for a well-deserved summer break. No doubt this has been and may continue to be, a very demanding period for you. However, I hope you are able to get some respite from meetings, and mid-year reviews, made even more exacting because of the demands imposed by COVID-19.
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Excipients Insight - March-April-May 2020
Dear Members,
As I dwell on the introduction for this edition of Excipients Insight, the current pandemic in which we find ourselves is foremost in our minds. It is having wide-reaching impact on so many aspects of our lives and let us hope better days are not too far away.
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Excipients Insight - January-February 2020
Dear Members,
As always, it was a great pleasure to see so many new and familiar faces at our recent Annual Forum in Aix-en-Provence. As I was gathering my thoughts for this editorial, I was reminded of a poem by Robert Browning with Aix in its title … while it’s not the same ‘Aix’, it talks of bearing good news and with that thought in mind, I do believe I can bring to you the good news that we have just held another very successful meeting!
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Excipients Insight - November-December 2019
Dear Members,
Season’s greetings and a warm welcome to the last edition of Excipents Insight for 2019. No doubt you’re all busy with end-of-year activities and preparing for the new decade!
From IPEC Europe’s perspective, this will also bring us into a new phase as we ready ourselves to introduce our next five years vision at our annual meeting in Aix-en-Provence, France.
Excipients Insight - August-Sept-Oct 2019
Dear IPEC Europe members,
Welcome to our autumn edition of Excipients Insight … who can believe it’s October already!
Where did the summer, and the rest of the year for that matter, disappear to!
In this editorial, I’d like to jump straight into the various task forces that are already active or are in the process of being assembled. We’re ready to launch our Lactose Interest Group as well as task forces considering Multicompendial Compliance Strategy for Excipients and The Potential Impact on Excipients of Nitrosamines in Medicinal Products and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs).
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Excipients Insight - May-June-July 2019
Dear IPEC Europe members,
‘’Summertime, and the livin’ is easy’’ so the famous song tells us and while we may be about to enjoy a seasonal break, work carries on regardless! The so called ‘silly season’ isn’t quite so silly anymore! Certainly, our Secretariat is fully engaged preparing for a full programme of events in the autumn.
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Excipients Insight - March-April 2019
Dear IPEC Europe members,
Welcome to our spring edition of Excipients Insight and it’s hard to believe we’re one quarter down in 2019 already! It has been a busy time with the Board and several committees convening to plan and begin the work programmes for this year. In this issue, some of the highlights of these meetings are presented and if these raise any questions in your mind or spark your interest, then please don’t hesitate to get in touch for more details via info@ipec-europe.org.
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Excipients Insight - January/February 2019
Dear readers,
It was so pleasing to see so many familiar and new faces at our recent Annual Forum in Malta, a new destination for us and our furthest yet! For those of you who were not able to attend, this issue of Excipients Insight provides a comprehensive report of what was presented and discussed. And that’s really the intention of our Forum ... to get people talking which in turn helps us to focus our efforts.
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Excipients Insight - November-December 2018
Dear Excipients Insight readers,
Welcome to the last edition of our newsletter for 2018. And a bumper edition it is!
It’s hard to believe that the year has passed so quickly and of course, it’s that time when we reflect on we did, what remains to be done and where to next?! First and foremost, and perennially, we remain ever thankful for those members who contribute so much to our efforts.
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Excipients Insight - October 2018
Dear Excipients Insight readers,
Welcome to the latest edition of our newsletter.
As I think of what’s been happening in recent weeks, once more we are in a hurry to consider some draft guidance documents from the China Pharmacopoeia (ChP) Commission on excipients of animal origin and excipient suitability studies. These have been distributed to our IPEC Europe members and relevant committees, and as I’ve mentioned before we greatly appreciate your contributions in very short turnaround times.
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Excipients Insight - September 2018
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to our latest edition and as this is hot-on-the-heels of the IPEC Europe Board meeting, we’ve been able to capture a few highlights for you here. After the summer break it’s time to kick off activities to ensure we meet our 2018 goals and indeed, prepare for next year. Effectively we have only three months left so we task out committees and working groups to make their best efforts to close out projects and develop plans for 2019 and beyond.
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Excipients Insight - July/August 2018
Dear readers,
It is unusual to be writing an editorial in August itself which is, as for many of you, our ‘holiday’ period. So, always striving to do something different, publishing this week does allow me to stay that despite our assumption that little gets done in the summer months, in fact it seems quite the opposite, for 2018 at least.
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Excipients Insight - June 2018
Dear readers,
It’s hard to believe that we’re issuing our June publication already and we find ourselves heading for the summer break. And of course, we’re now preparing for those mid-year reviews to measure progress to ensure we can meet our goals by the end of the year. Not only that but September is not far away when the Board will convene with an eye to 2019. We’ll be revisiting our Agenda 2020 to confirm our strategic direction and that we’re working on the right things to get there. More on this in future issues.
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Excipients Insight - April/May 2018
Welcome readers to our spring edition!
Reflecting on what has happened during the past two months, again I am drawn to the subject of regulations, and not just those that impact directly or indirectly on pharmaceutical excipients. Surprisingly, I’m talking about those areas where we wish there might be some regulatory processes in place to better protect the intellectual property of particularly, novel excipients.
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Excipients Insight - March 2018
Hello Excipients Insight readers,
As the first quarter of 2018 comes to a close, I’m glad to report that while we have set in place our plans for this year, many activities are ongoing. After our annual event in Bordeaux, we’ve had our first ‘outing’ to present the association at Europe’s First Making Pharmaceuticals event in Brussels earlier this month. IPEC Europe contributed to the speaker programme through Dr Liz Meehan and Astrid Stockrahm-Uhling, to whom we offer our thanks for spreading the word on excipient developments.
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Excipients Insight - February 2018
Dear readers,
Already at the end of this year’s second month, we have a packed edition of our newsletter for you which features several reports of our recent events in Bordeaux, France. Hopefully, for those who weren’t able to attend it will provide some great information - and for those who were there perhaps some nice reminders which you can share with colleagues.
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Excipients Insight - January 2018
Dear readers,
As this is our opening edition of Excipients Insight for 2018, on behalf of the IPEC Europe Board, I’d like to wish all reading this a most successful and rewarding New Year. It will be a very busy one no doubt, as for sure the number of challenges we face as an ‘industry’ do not seem to be in decline!
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