Making science work

Dear Colleagues,

IPEC Europe and APV are delighted to invite you once again to our annual conference on pharmaceutical excipients. As in previous years the conference will focus on "hot topics" in the area of excipient regulation and technology. Along with a comprehensive and thought-provoking conference programme we will offer three parallel workshops to providepractical, hands-on insight and discussion on pressing regulatory topics, with a view to developing joint solutions. These workshops will focus on change management, risk management and quality agreements, topics which will have a lot of impact on the pharmaceutical industry and suppliers alike.
This year's regulatory session will highlight the new ICH Q3D guideline on elemental impurities and the changes to EU GMPGuidelines Part 1 (chapter 5) which will create a lot of work for industry in the future. Different views will be presented anddiscussed from a European perspective, and we will also look at developments on the other side of the Atlantic and discuss theimpact of new US regulation on the supply of excipients. The technical and scientific part of the conference will be opened with a compendial topic presented by EDQM. All otherpresentations in this session will focus on the role of excipients and their function in dosage forms. With this program we tried to gather different aspects of excipients and combine regulatory and technical topics as they are thetwo sides of one coin.
Once again, networking and exchange of information is a key feature of the event and table-top exhibitions aligned to the conference will encourage communication between suppliers and users as well. We hope you will agree that the topics covered include some really pressing issues affecting excipients, and we are lookingforward to welcoming you in Barcelona.

Hubertus Folttmann
Board Member of IPEC Europe

Frank Milek
Chair to IPEC Europe