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21 September 2005

Media Fills - Balancing Guidelines and Avoiding Prions

On Wednesday 28 September 2005, as part of the Institute of Validation Technology (IVT) Aseptic Processing and Sterile Processes conference that is being held in Dublin, Phil Smith, Pharmaceutical Marketing Manager, Oxoid Ltd will be co-hosting a workshop on “Media Fills – Balancing Guidelines and Avoiding Prions” with Dona Reber, Director of Microbiology, Global Quality Operations, Wyeth.

The workshop will cover:

• FDA regulations and industry practices regarding Process Simulations (Media Fills).
• Designing a media fill, media fills for validation, routine media fills.
• Selection of the most appropriate culture media, the prion problem and how Oxoid’s Cold Filterable Vegetable Peptone Broth provides an alternative to animal-based tryptone soya broth. 

Oxoid can provide coupons for a $200 discount on the cost of attending this conference.  If you would like to obtain a coupon, or if you are unable to attend but would like to receive more details of Oxoid Cold Filterable Vegetable Peptone Broth (product code: VG0104) and Oxoid’s other products for the pharmaceutical industry, please contact Val Kane, Oxoid Ltd, tel: +44 (0) 1256 841144, fax: (0) 1256 329728, email: pharma@oxoid.com.