Galaxy Scientific Inc applications

Near infrared spectroscopy has been widely used in the chemicals and polymers industries for years. This is because it is a rapid technique that eliminates sample preparation and costly consumables.  FT-NIR analysis is non-destructive, capable of simultaneous analysis of multiple components, and can be used for online monitoring.  With flexible sampling mechanisms, NIR can analyze solids, liquids, and gasses.

The pharmaceutical industry includes discovering, developing, producing, and marketing drugs to be used as medications and vaccines to treat and cure patients across the globe.  The modern pharmaceutical industry began in the early 1800s and continues to grow rapidly until this day.   For example, in 2018, cancer drugs made nearly 100 billion U.S. dollars of revenue globally.

Within the globalized pharmaceutical raw material supply chain, there is an increasing public health concern of raw material adulteration, contamination, or mislabeling, especially with recent incidents such as the adulteration of heparin. This has driven regulatory bodies to update their guidelines. Chapter 5.33 of the latest GMP guidelines for Medicinal Products for Human Use, provided by the European Commission (EC), entitled "Eudralex," specifies that "there should be appropriate procedures or measures to assure the identity of the contents of each container of starting material1." This means that all raw materials used in pharmaceutical manufacture must be analyzed and this has to be done for every single container. The raw materials not only have to be identified, but also tested to ensure they meet certain specifications.