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Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme (2003), Good Practices for Computerised Systems in Regulated GxP Environments, Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme (PIC/S), Pharmaceutical Inspection Convention, PI 011-1, Geneva, August. 

The publication record is an appropriate measure of the overall impact of software in both business and nonbusiness environments. Pharmaceutical, chemical, agrochemical, and biotechnology companies have been among the prime purchasers of commercial software. Academicians use these same software packages, which they usually can acquire relatively inexpensively. Although scientists in industry do not experience the same pressure to publish as academicians and therefore tend not to publish the same quantity of papers, many of the leading computational chemists in industry do publish as extensively as their academic counterparts. Thus the scientific literature gives a reasonable measure of the frequency with which software played a role in publications. Comparisons can be made based trends in those frequencies. 

Leaver, G. and Hambleton, P. (1992). Designing bioreactors to minimise or prevent inadvertent release into the workplace and natural environment. Pharmaceutical Technology International, 4 (3), April, 18-26. 

Dibb S, Russell Y, Simkin L. The EU marketing environment pharmaceuticals and Japanese strategy. Eur Manage J 1997 15 195-9. 

Foremost we hope - and believe - that chemoinformatics will become of increasing importance in the teaching of chemistry. The instruments and methods that are used in chemistry will continue to swamp us with data and we have to manage these data to increase our chemical knowledge. We have to understand more deeply, and exploit, the results of our experiments. Concomitantly, demands on the properties of the compounds that are produced by the chemical and pharmaceutical industries will continue to rise. We will need materials that are better we need them to be more selective, have fewer undesirable properties, able to be broken down easily in the environment without producing toxic by-products, and so on. This asks for more insight into the relationships between chemical structures and their properties. Furthermore, we have to plan and perform fewer and more efficient experiments. 

The elution order for neutral species in MEKC depends on the extent to which they partition into the micelles. Hydrophilic neutrals are insoluble in the micelle s hydrophobic inner environment and elute as a single band as they would in CZE. Neutral solutes that are extremely hydrophobic are completely soluble in the micelle, eluting with the micelles as a single band. Those neutral species that exist in a partition equilibrium between the buffer solution and the micelles elute between the completely hydrophilic and completely hydrophobic neutrals. Those neutral species favoring the buffer solution elute before those favoring the micelles. Micellar electrokinetic chromatography has been used to separate a wide variety of samples, including mixtures of pharmaceutical compounds, vitamins, and explosives. 

The excellent corrosion resistance means that tantalum is often the metal of choice for processes carried out in oxidising environments or when freedom from reactor contamination of the product or side reactions are necessary, as in food and pharmaceutical processing. Frequently, the initial investment is relatively high, but this is offset by low replacement costs owing to the durabiUty of the metal. 

Much of the experimental work in chemistry deals with predicting or inferring properties of objects from measurements that are only indirectly related to the properties. For example, spectroscopic methods do not provide a measure of molecular stmcture directly, but, rather, indirecdy as a result of the effect of the relative location of atoms on the electronic environment in the molecule. That is, stmctural information is inferred from frequency shifts, band intensities, and fine stmcture. Many other types of properties are also studied by this indirect observation, eg, reactivity, elasticity, and permeabiHty, for which a priori theoretical models are unknown, imperfect, or too compHcated for practical use. Also, it is often desirable to predict a property even though that property is actually measurable. Examples are predicting the performance of a mechanical part by means of nondestmctive testing (qv) methods and predicting the biological activity of a pharmaceutical before it is synthesized. 

Authors are designed row sensitive and selective test-systems for analysis of heavy metals, active chlorine, phenols, nitrates, nitrites, phosphate etc. for analysis of objects of an environment and for control of ions Ee contents in the technological solutions of KH PO, as well as for testing some of pharmacological psychotropic daigs alkaloids (including opiates), cannabis as well as pharmaceutical preparations of phenothiazines, barbiturates and 1,4-benzodiazepines series too. 

Control of metalloid content in natural objects, foodstuff and pharmaceuticals is an important task for modern analytical chemistry. Determination of elements such as Arsenic is necessary for evaluation of object toxicity, since their content in environment may exceed MCL (maximum contaminant level), posing hazard to human health. Elements such as Selenium in definite doses are healthy, but in greater quantities they produce toxic effect. 

Drugs with endocrinological functions or side-effects are common, but oestrogenic hormones in oral contraceptives are particularly widely used. Pharmaceuticals and their metabolites eventually find their way into the environment, predominantly via excretion into sewage. ... 

Chemicals are ubiquitous as air, carbohydrates, enzymes, lipids, minerals, proteins, vitamins, water, and wood. Naturally occurring chemicals are supplemented by man-made substances. There are about 70000 chemicals in use with another 500-1000 added each year. Their properties have been harnessed to enhance the quality of life, e.g. cosmetics, detergents, energy fuels, explosives, fertilizers, foods and drinks, glass, metals, paints, paper, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, plastics, rubber, solvents, textiles thus chemicals are found in virtually all workplaces. Besides the benefits, chemicals also pose dangers to man and the environment. For example ... 

The purpose of open unidirectional airflow benches is to protect products from particulate contaminants by creating a controlled environment. These benches are used, for example, in electronic, biological, pharmaceutical, and food industries. It should be mentioned that within pharmaceutical production, aseptic sterile processes must be carried out in a Class 100 environment (U.S. Federal Standard 209 E, Airborne Particulate Cleanliness Classes in Cleanrooms and Clean Zones). To avoid particle contamination in the bench, horizontal or vertical airflow with high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA)-filtered air is used. The air velocity is normally 0.4-0.5 ra s". Some examples of typical arrangements of open unidirectional airflow benches are shown in Fig. 10.51. 

ACSH is a consumer education consortium concerned with issues related to food, nutrition, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, lifestyle, the environment and health. ACSH is an independent, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. 

Pyridine is a polar, stable, relatively unreactive liquid (bp 115°C) with a characteristic strong penetrating odor that is unpleasant to most people. It is miscible with both water and organic solvents. Pyridine was first isolated, like pyrrole, from bone pyrolysates. Its name is derived from the Greek for fire (pyr) and the suffix idine used to designate aromatic bases. Pyridine is used as a solvent, in addition to many other uses including products such as pharmaceuticals, vitamins, food flavorings, paints, dyes, rubber products, adhesives, insecticides, and herbicides. Pyridine can also be formed from the breakdown of many natural materials in the environment. 

The tower in which CO2 is stripped out must run into a break-pressure tank with subsequent re-pumping. It will load the water with any dust, and living organisms or other particles in the atmosphere, which leads to trouble in dirty environments or in pharmaceutical works. 

Munoz I, Lopez-Doval J, Ricart M, et al (2009) Bridging levels of pharmaceuticals with biological community structure in the Llobregat river basin (NE Spain) Environ Toxicol Chem28, 12. DOI 10.1897/08-486.1... 

It is well documented that WWTP are major contributors of pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs in the aquatic environment, due to their incomplete removal in conventional activated sludge (CAS) treatment, resulting in important loads discharged into river waters through effluent wastewaters (Tables 1 and 2). 

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