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Template method validation plan impurity tests

Written by Dr. Janet Thode Posted in Method validation

In the highly regulated pharmaceutical environment, documentation is always associated with a little more effort... This also applies to the creation of necessary documents required for laboratory methods. Before an analytical method is allowed to be used in a QC laboratory for the first time, it prior must be validated.

From everyday laboratory work: Systematic and random errors

Written by Dr. Janet Thode Posted in Method validation

Everyone who works in a laboratory every day, be it in a pharmaceutical QC lab or a contract laboratory, will at some point deal with the following questions: “What influences good measurements? When are we able to trust our measurements?” The answer is simple: ideally no or just small random and systematic measurement errors, since measurement results are never free of errors. What’s behind, we’d like to explain a little bit in this blog article.

Review of the book „What's so funny about Microbiology?“

Written by Dr. Janet Thode Posted in Think out of the box

Sometimes you just need a smile in your dull everyday work...

The book "What's so funny about Microbiology?" by Joachim Czichos (7th extended edition from 2004, published by Czichos-Selbstverlag Ettlingen, ISBN: 3-00-003553-2, www.joachim-czichos.de) is perfect for this!

These wonderful, loving comics have accompanied me over 20 years ago during my time as trainee in a microbiological lab and everyone who is enthusiastic about microbiology will love this book!