Analytical Instruments and Sample Storage

Analytical Instruments and Storage

Our dedicated metrology group performs calibration, validation and preventative maintenance of all analytical laboratory equipment. Our analytical equipment is IQ/OQ/PQ certified. Key instrumentation in our laboratory (Adobe Acrobat file, 217 Kb) allows us to offer:

General Laboratory Technologies

  • Most major brands of HPLC are offered:
    • Detectors: UV, PDA, RI, Fluorescence and ELSD
  • GC - Agilent 6890 and Perkin Elmer AutoExcel:
    • Specialized injection mode: headspace analyzer and cool-on column
    • Detection: FID, TCD, ECD, FPD
  • Agilent GC/MS:
    • CI & EI ionization modes
  • SCIEX 300, SCIEX 2000 and SCIEX 365:
    • APCI & ESI ionization modes
  • Ion chromatography
  • FTIR spectrophotometer
  • UV-visible spectrophotometers
  • Hunter colorimeter
  • USP dissolution - apparatus I, II, III & IV
  • Coagulation analyzer
  • Zymark multidose automated dissolution system
  • Karl Fischer coulometric and titrimetric titrators
  • Multiple potentiometric titrators
  • Densitometer
  • Total organic carbon analyzer
  • Hardness testers
  • Sieving:
    • RoTap
    • Air-Jet
  • Osmometer
  • Viscometers
  • Turbidiometer
  • USP particulate matter:
    • HIAC particulate matter analyzer
    • Microscope
  • DSC
  • TGA
  • Atomic absorption:
    • Flame and graphite furnace
  • USP and JP disintegration

Specialized Inhalation Technologies

  • Next generation impactor
  • Andersen cascade impactors
  • Marple-Miller Impactor M150
  • Multi-stage liquid impinger (MSLI)
  • Malvern Spraytec droplet size analyzer
  • HIAC Royco particulate matter analyzer
  • Horiba particle size analyzer
  • Sierra Instruments top-trak digital flow meters
  • Copley Scientific
    • Inhaler testing data analysis software (CITDAS)
    • Model TPK critical flow controller
  • Innova Systems
    • Nasal dose weight collection station (NSP-DWCS)
    • MDI FD-10 automated bursting station
    • Nasal spray pump actuation station (eNSP, Mighty Runt)
  • Pamasol hand crimper
  • Spray View system for:
    • Plume geometry
    • Spray pattern
  • Optronics imaging system for optical microscopy

Specialized Biopharmaceutical Technologies

  • Capillary electrophoresis: CZE, CGE, CIEF:
    • Detection: UV and LIF
  • Gel electrophoresis: SDS-PAGE, Native PAGE, IEF and Agarose Gel
  • Phast electrophoresis
  • ELISA
  • HPLC: RP, SEC, HIC, IEX, HAC and affinity (metal and Dye) modes:
    • Detection: UV/Vis, PDA, RI, ELSD, MS and Fl
  • Peptide mapping: HPLC and LC/MS/MS
  • Amino acid analysis (AAA)
  • Carbohydrate analysis and glycosylation:
    • Colorimetric, CE and PDA
  • Enzyme activity analysis
  • Residual protein and chemical analysis
  • Antibiotics, chelators, PEG and host cell protein
  • Gel filtration
  • Protein content
  • UV, fluorometry, colorimetric and AAA
  • Disulfide bonds
  • Extinction coefficients
  • MALS: Wyatt Technology Mini Dawn:
    • Protein-protein interaction
    • Protein aggregation
    • Stoichiometry of protein-protein complexes
  • Semi Prep-LC
  • Blotting, including:
    • Western
    • Northern
    • Southern

Stability Storage Facility

PPD maintains a dedicated stability storage facility, providing customized GMP-, ICH- and DEA-compliant stability and photostability management services for all dosage forms in every phase of drug development. Details about our facility include:

  • 34,000 cu. ft. of both walk-in and reach-in stability storage space
  • Calibration, validation and preventative maintenance of equipment and stability chambers
  • Customized computerized sample tracking tool monitored by computerized alarm system
  • Chamber condition limit alarm with automatic telephone call out to staff (24/7)
  • Full generator backup
  • Standard chamber conditions include:
    • Ultracold (<-65 C)
    • -15 and -20 C
    • 5°C
    • 25°C/40% RH
    • 25°C/60% RH
    • 25°C/75% RH
    • 30°C/40% RH
    • 30°C/60% RH
    • 30°C/65% RH
    • 40°C/15% RH
    • 40°C/75% RH
    • Customized conditions upon request
    • Photostability chamber with white (visible) and near UV (UV-A) exposure options
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