> French drugmaker Ipsen says that in collaboration with the FDA, it is releasing in November an additional batch of Increlex, its rare disease drug, supplies of which were interrupted when its ...

Three years ago, Johnson & Johnson’s HIV drug Prezista was the only product approved by the FDA to be produced with continuous manufacturing. Now, there are four companies manufacturing five approved ...

“A unit operation is continuous if it is capable of processing a continuous flow input for prolonged periods of time. A continuous unit operation has minimal internal hold volume. The output can be ...

For decades, most industries, from petrochemicals to paper, have embraced continuous manufacturing processes. In contrast, the ultraconservative pharmaceutical industry has remained committed to batch ...

Continuous processing can get products to market about 12 months faster than batch processing, according to a 2022 paper by the FDA. Understandably, the drive to transition to continuous bioprocessing ...