In 1905, the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention, the nonprofit standards-setting organization known as USP, introduced a method to check for heavy metals in U.S. pharmaceuticals. More than 100 years later, ...

The author discusses how to manage pending pharmacopeial changes. The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) has revised its elemental impurities limits and procedureal chapters with implementation set for ...

The International Conference on Harmonization (ICH), an international pharmaceutical regulatory harmonization body, has announced the release of a new quality manufacturing guideline for consultation ...

Recent activity in standards-setting organizations has raised interest in the impact of testing for impurities that may enter the product before it is mined or harvested or even due to intentional use ...

The removal of transition metal impurities is essential in producing high-conductivity aluminium for wire and cable applications. Titanium, vanadium, chromium and zirconium and other elements – ...

Due to the metabolic role of some elements in the human organism, the determination of the inorganic profile of oils is vital. On the one hand, there is knowledge of the food's nutritional value ...

Out of all the metals you can recycle, aluminum is one of the most energy-efficient and cost-saving. It can take 9 to 18 as much energy to produce aluminum from raw ore than melting down and purifying ...

Red Metal Ltd says it has made a major breakthrough in metallurgical testing of its rare earths ore from the company’s Sybella project in Queensland that will result in less impurities and higher ...

Red Metal’s first proof of concept impurity removal trial has produced a potentially saleable mixed rare earth carbonate product. This follows interim results from Phase 2 metallurgical testing which ...