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2015 · 02RegisterPress Releases

Injectable portfolio reaches double figures

The tenth sterile injectable monograph has entered Ergopharm's register, marking the point at which the ampoule line moved from a small number of established products into a genuine portfolio.

Each addition follows the same route: formulation and container-closure development, filter compatibility and extractables work, process validation on the commercial line, a full stability programme, and only then commercial release. The route does not shorten with familiarity, though it does become more predictable.

Adding the tenth product was harder than adding the second. Shared equipment is what makes it so.

Portfolio growth on a shared aseptic line raises questions a single product does not: campaign sequencing, cleaning validation bracketing across a wider range of actives, and media fills that must represent the most demanding interventions across all of them. Each was addressed before the products were added rather than after.

Every presentation is a 1 ml single-use ampoule, ten to a carton, which keeps downstream handling and serialisation identical across the range.

Key facts

Milestone
Tenth sterile monograph
Route
Development · validation · stability · release
Shared-line controls
Cleaning bracketing, campaign sequencing, media-fill design
Presentation
1 ml ampoule, 10 per carton