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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
CS Analytical Laboratory Announces Expansion to their Package Distribution Testing Service Fully Operational
The ability for CS Analytical to simulate real-world environmental stressors such as temperature, pressure, and vibration, in tandem, is a gamechanger for science and risk-based product-package development of unique biological products currently on and coming to market. CLIFTON, N.J., May 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CS Analytical Laboratory, the world's only FDA regulated contract laboratory exclusively dedicated to providing regulatory solutions and testing services specifically for drug product and medical device package systems, is excited to announce that the major expansion program ASTM D4169-22 and ISTA Package Distribution Testing services is now fully operational. Based upon the installation and qualification of new equipment to include a custom-made, large-scale Lansmont Vibration test platform fitted with a uniquely designed Abbess Temperature, Relative Humidity and Altitude chamber that enables comprehensive, multimodal, and real-time simulated distribution testing for unique, high-risk, or high-value product types and package systems. In addition, CS Analytical will continue to offer its suite of services specific to routine ISTA Series 2/3/6 and ASTM D4169-22 distribution testing services to their pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device clients. As noted by Brandon Zuralow, CS Analytical COO, "To remain relevant for our client base, we must continue to offer services that enable clients to meet the ever-changing and often complicated regulatory requirements and best practices for their container and package systems. The CS Analytical Team is committed to this endeavor as evidenced by this expansion to our current service offering." Traditionally, these environmental factors would be independently evaluated through conditioning, vibration, and altitude testing. For certain products such as cell and gene therapies, with their small-batch / high-value nature and unique shipment requirements, or proteinaceous products susceptible to aggregation, testing to current standards may risk over- or under-testing relative to what is experienced in the real world. Evaluating these factors in tandem provides a more accurate picture of the performance of the product-package under realistic transport conditions. "Package distribution testing for these types of products can be challenging. Existing standards may result in over- or under-testing relative to real world distribution networks. For clients in this position, real-world, non-simulated testing is often performed, which is both time and cost intensive," commented Alex Goldberg, CS Analytical Laboratory Analyst and Project Lead. "The ability to simulate this in the laboratory is a gamechanger for efficiency, as well as science and risk-based product-package development." Currently, many companies that require this type of testing are performing it real-time by sending actual product through existing shipment channels. This quickly becomes time and cost prohibitive, especially when design changes are required. Having a service provider that can replicate this type of testing in a laboratory setting will offer huge time and cost savings. Additionally, since the equipment is fully programmable, clients who have mapped the actual temperature, pressure, and vibratory profiles of their distribution channels can recreate them in the lab, simulating the exact stressors experienced in the field. The CS Analytical Team currently offers complete ASTM D4169-22 and ISTA Certified testing for common or unique primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging components and systems. However, distribution testing is just one element of successful product-package development and validation. CS Analytical offers a host of support and complementary testing programs that ensure all aspects of the regulatory requirements are met for any type of container system in a comprehensive manner. Whether a traditional solid oral dose in an HDPE bottle, a unique drug delivery system, a challenging and oversized IV bag system, the CS Analytical Team has the knowledge and hands-on experience to develop a qualification test program that ensures all development goals and regulatory compliance factors are met. About CS Analytical Laboratory The only FDA regulated, cGMP laboratory dedicated exclusively to the complex world of drug and medical device container and package qualification testing, the CS Analytical Team includes the world's leading experts on all relevant USP and EP requirements and the thought leaders and pioneers on CCI (container closure integrity – CCI) testing. Offering a full suite of laboratory services to include all USP, EP and JP procedures specific to glass, plastic and elastomers as well as complete USP 1207 services that span basic feasibility studies, component qualification programs and advanced method development and validation for helium leak testing, vacuum decay, high voltage and headspace analysis leak testing. CS Analytical is the one source that can ensure your medical product container and package system meets the strict and complex regulatory requirements. Please contact us at engage@ if you have any questions. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE CS Analytical
USA Today
15-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Celtics Lab 315: Surveying Boston's playoffs path and a last look at the regular season
Celtics Lab 315: Surveying Boston's playoffs path and a last look at the regular season The 2024-25 NBA regular season is officially in the books for the Boston Celtics, and the 2025 NBA Playoffs quickly coming into focus for the team. The Celtics' postseason defense of their 2024 NBA Championship begins in earnest on April 20 after their second consecutive 60-win regular season, and we have the path Boston will need to traverse to get back to the league's biggest stage all but finalized. We say 'all but' given we won't know whether the second-seeded Celtics play the Atlanta Hawks or the Orlando Magic in the first round until they sort out their play-in tilt, but from there, the field is largely set. Which teams look to be the biggest challenge for Boston? What are the other matchups looking like? The hosts of the CLNS Media "Celtics Lab" podcast, Alex Goldberg, Cameron Tabatabaie, and Justin Quinn, take a close look at the postseason landscape in this week's episode of the show, with a look back at the regular season and our predictions on how it would play out for good measure. Tune in to get your playoff bearings -- and see how we did. Celtics Lab is brought to you by Gametime. If you enjoy this pod, check out the "How Bout Them Celtics," "First to the Floor," "Celtics Lab," and the many other New England sports podcasts available on the CLNS Media network. Listen to the "Celtics Lab" podcast on: Apple Podcasts: Spotify:
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
What can the Dallas Mavericks tell us about the future of the Boston Celtics?
What can the Dallas Mavericks tell us about the future of the Boston Celtics? What can the the current state of the Dallas Mavericks tell us about the future of the Boston Celtics? From how the sale of the Mavs can give us insight into the future of the management of the roster (and who might be doing it) to everything the Celtics should want to avoid (trading away a younger star for an aging, injury-probe star, as an example), there are a ton of insights that Dallas can provide for fans of the Celtics in this important transitional moment for the storied ball club. The hosts of the CLNS Media "Celtics Lab" podcast, Alex Goldberg, Cameron Tabatabaie, and Justin Quinn, linked up with ESPN senior reporter Tim McMahon to talk about his new book, 'The Wonder Boy: Luka Doncic and the Curse of Greatness,' what it can tell us about the future of Boston's roster and front office, and who might emerge from the West to make the 2025 NBA Finals. Advertisement Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what they had to say! If you enjoy this pod, check out the "How Bout Them Celtics," "First to the Floor," "Celtics Lab," and the many other New England sports podcasts available on the CLNS Media network. Listen to the "Celtics Lab" podcast on: Apple Podcasts: Spotify: This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: What can the Mavericks tell us about the future of the Celtics?
USA Today
02-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
What can the Dallas Mavericks tell us about the future of the Boston Celtics?
What can the Dallas Mavericks tell us about the future of the Boston Celtics? What can the the current state of the Dallas Mavericks tell us about the future of the Boston Celtics? From how the sale of the Mavs can give us insight into the future of the management of the roster (and who might be doing it) to everything the Celtics should want to avoid (trading away a younger star for an aging, injury-probe star, as an example), there are a ton of insights that Dallas can provide for fans of the Celtics in this important transitional moment for the storied ball club. The hosts of the CLNS Media "Celtics Lab" podcast, Alex Goldberg, Cameron Tabatabaie, and Justin Quinn, linked up with ESPN senior reporter Tim McMahon to talk about his new book, 'The Wonder Boy: Luka Doncic and the Curse of Greatness,' what it can tell us about the future of Boston's roster and front office, and who might emerge from the West to make the 2025 NBA Finals. Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what they had to say! If you enjoy this pod, check out the "How Bout Them Celtics," "First to the Floor," "Celtics Lab," and the many other New England sports podcasts available on the CLNS Media network. Listen to the "Celtics Lab" podcast on: Apple Podcasts: Spotify:
BBC News
23-03-2025
- General
- BBC News
Covid lives weren't celebrated in South East, funeral director says
A funeral director has expressed his sadness that people who died during the Covid pandemic were never "celebrated" by their people were unable to hold services to say goodbye to their loved ones due to public health restrictions on gatherings that were in place at the Lawrence, the owner of Family Funeral Service in Kent, said: "After that period, people were not inclined to revisit that death, and try to gather everyone back together again."People who died "just disappeared quietly into the darkness and it is a great shame", he added. According to the funeral director, whose business operates in Maidstone and the Medway towns, some people were able to make alternative plans which were allowed under the of one deceased person gathered in small groups, sharing stories from that person's life, he Lawrence said: "Under the circumstances it was the very best we could do."They appreciated it and understood, and they were happy to have at least that."Alternative funeral arrangements have now "caught the imagination of people" and are becoming more popular, he said. Coffins on pews The high death rate made the pandemic a "scary time", Mr Lawrence said, recalling how his business began to experience capacity problems at its body storage approaching local clergy, Family Funeral Service stored bodies in two disused churches in the area, as the company "just couldn't cope"."At one time we had 120 coffins standing on the backs of the pews," Mr Lawrence said."It was just happening so quickly. You put the phone down and it rang again.""I was scared because, at that time, there wasn't an end in sight," he funeral director was also fearful after contracting the disease himself, as he saw "what could happen" first hand. The Rabbi of Guildford, Alex Goldberg, agreed that the Covid pandemic was a "hard time", particularly for families who had lost loved Jewish community in Surrey reached the consensus that "preserving life came first", and that honouring the dead should take place "as much as possible" under restrictions, he added that religious practices for handling bodies were adapted to protect people from infection, but said "bodies were released very quickly and burials were done very quickly". 'Strange feeling' Felix Smith, a vicar for the South Lancing and Sompting, and Lancing with Coombes parishes, said he found himself doing "lots and lots of funerals" where restrictions funerals took place entirely at the graveside to allow more people to attend under social distancing rules, but he said this did not feel like a "proper" funeral for some, as no wake took Church of England vicar described feeling "particularly weighed down" by funerals in the "little bit of a strange feeling" was brought on by having "almost no break between these funerals" and the services becoming "almost the only ministry that we were doing", he said. Mr Smith added that organising funerals over the phone was "very different" to discussing arrangements while sitting with families in their homes and looking at pictures of their departed loved ones."It makes a big difference because you can't make eye contact," he said."When someone is getting upset on the end of the phone it's a very different thing."The vicar also said funerals during that period lacked physical touch, and therefore the expression of emotion of funerals in more normal masks meant emotion was sometimes "difficult to convey", Mr Smith said.
