And we continue reviewing pharmaceutical "essentials" books. With unbroken enthusiasm, I jumped at the book "Trending in the pharmaceutical industry" by Patric U.B. Vogel this time, published in 2020 by Springer Spektrum, Wiesbaden (ISBN: 978-3-658-32206-9) and spent a cozy evening in front of the chimney.

In case analytical methods are evaluated for their suitability, the parameter "trueness" must also be considered during method validation for quantitative analyses of impurities as well as for content determinations and potency assays according to the method validation guideline ICH Q2(R1).

The various techniques of Raman spectroscopy find a wide range of applications in the different areas of the pharmaceutical industry, be it for the detection of counterfeits, as an in-process control (IPC) during the production of the active pharmaceutical ingredient, for content determinations, as an ID test for vaccines, for the simultaneous determination of several product quality attributes (PQAs) as part of a rapid release strategy, up to sterility tests, to name just a few examples [1-4].

After outing myself in the last blog article as a fan of the "essentials" series, I’ve enthusiastically read some more books, but unfortunately haven’t found any time for reviews yet. This should change right now. Therefore, in this blog article I’d like to present the book "Quality Control of Vaccines" by Patric U.B. Vogel, published in 2020 by Springer Spektrum, Wiesbaden (ISBN: 978-3-658-31864-2). Of course, this book has also accompanied me - in keeping with tradition - on a vacation ????