“Receiving recognition as a Facility of the Year Award winner generates unsurpassed opportunities for manufacturers and their key supporting organizations to showcase their ingenuity,” said Clive Mullins, Chairman of the Facility of the Year Awards Committee. “This program really motivates professionals in the pharmaceutical industry to share best practices within the global community.”

ISPE, a global not-for-profit association of 25,000 pharmaceutical science and manufacturing professionals — together with INTERPHEX and Pharmaceutical Processing magazine — today announced a call for global pharmaceutical manufacturing organizations to submit details of newly constructed or renovated facilities for the 2009 Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) program.

FOYA, now in its fifth year, has quickly become the pre-eminent program that recognizes and disseminates best practices in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. It awards those companies that utilize new and innovative technologies to reduce the cost of production of high quality medicines and enhance capital project delivery.

This global program attracts submissions from more than 20 countries from around the world. Past winners have come from Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

For complete information about the awards program and submission procedures, please visit www.facilityoftheyear.org or contact Marni Schribman, ISPE Communications Manager, by tel: +1-813-960-2105.

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“Our Members told us that there were some things we could do to make their Web site experience easier and more effective while providing the information they need to be successful in their work,” said ISPE President and CEO Robert Best. “We listened and used their feedback to carefully re-design the Web site to serve our membership better.”

ISPE has launched its new Web site after extensive usability studies and feedback from its Members. The new www.ISPE.org design and functionality includes:

• Cleaner, easier-to-read pages
• More purpose-driven and intuitive navigation
• Easier access to industry and regulatory news and information
• Robust functionality that enables networking and community-driven communication
• New content intended to address the challenges of today’s pharmaceutical professionals

In tandem with the launch of the new Web site — and in effort to address the industry’s need for current, relevant, and useful content — is the release of ISPE’s new Knowledge Brief publications and a downloadable version of ISPE’s acclaimed Glossary of Applied Terminology. Additional features and Web site functionality will be available in the coming months.

Knowledge Briefs are concise, easy-to-read resources that help industry professionals get up-to-speed quickly on a wide variety of disciplines and topics. The first three Knowledge Briefs are:

• Biotechnology Basics (Level – Basic)
  
  This Knowledge Brief provides basic concepts explaining the science of biotechnology and how science and process are combined to lead to the manufacture of a human therapeutic product.
• Commissioning and Qualification of Biopharmaceutical Facilities (Level – Intermediate)
  
  This Knowledge Brief summarizes the considerations involved in the commissioning and qualification of a biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility.
• Quality by Design (Level – Intermediate)
  
  This Knowledge Brief provides and explains the basic elements of Quality by Design (QbD).

Knowledge Briefs are free to ISPE Members and can be downloaded by visiting www.ISPE.org/knowledgebriefs. Nonmembers will pay $5US (€3) for each Knowledge Brief.

In addition to the release of the first three Knowledge Briefs, ISPE plans to release its first downloadable version of the comprehensive Glossary of Applied Terminology in the fall of 2008. The glossary is designed to help industry professionals with daily job functions, understand terminology used in ISPE’s technical documents and education seminars, and standardize industry terms around the globe. The glossary, which will be in PDF format and free to ISPE Members, contains more than 5,800 terms and includes abbreviations, acronyms, and terms focusing on specific areas in biotechnology and pharmaceutical science and manufacturing such as computer technology, manufacturing processes, water treatment, welding, metallurgy, HVAC, medicine, biology, chemistry and many other subjects.

For more information on these or other ISPE technical documents and publications, visit www.ISPE.org/publications.

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