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Buyer's Guide – Products

Lab Instrumentation & QA / QC


Analyzers
	ADSORPTION GAS APPARATUS	Product News, Companies
	ANALYZERS, air quality	Product News, Companies
	ANALYZERS, bulk density	Product News, Companies
	ANALYZERS, chromatographic	Product News, Companies
	ANALYZERS, colorimetric	Product News, Companies
	ANALYZERS, conductivity	Product News, Companies
	ANALYZERS, gravimetric	Product News, Companies
	ANALYZERS, hardness	Product News, Companies
	ANALYZERS, infrared	Product News, Companies
	ANALYZERS, laboratory	Product News, Companies
	ANALYZERS, moisture content	Product News, Companies
	ANALYZERS, NIR	Product News, Companies
	ANALYZERS, particle counters	Product News, Companies
	ANALYZERS, particle density	Product News, Companies
	ANALYZERS, particle shape	Product News, Companies
	ANALYZERS, particle size	Product News, Companies
	ANALYZERS, surface area	Product News, Companies
	ANALYZERS, thermal	Product News, Companies
	ANALYZERS, total organic carbon	Product News, Companies
	BLOOD ANALYSIS EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies
	CARBON-HYDROGEN-NITROGEN ANALYZERS	Product News, Companies
	SOLIDS ANALYZERS	Product News, Companies
	SUGAR ANALYZERS	Product News, Companies
	VISCOSITY	Product News, Companies
	WATER ANALYZERS	Product News, Companies
	ZETA POTENTIAL ANALYZERS	Product News, Companies

Apparatus
	AIR SAMPLERS	Product News, Companies
	AUTOMATED ANALYSIS EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies
	BULK DENSITY TESTERS	Product News, Companies
	DENSITY MEASURING EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies
	ETO MONITORS	Product News, Companies
	INSTRUMENTS FOR MEASURING PARTICLE CONCENTRATION	Product News, Companies
	SAMPLE PREPARATION INSTRUMENTATION	Product News, Companies
	SAMPLING DEVICES, automated	Product News, Companies
	SAMPLING DEVICES, bulk powder	Product News, Companies
	TENSIOMETERS	Product News, Companies
	THERMAL ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTS	Product News, Companies
	THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies

Balance / Scales / Weighing
	BALANCES, analytical	Product News, Companies
	BALANCES, automatic	Product News, Companies
	BALANCES, direct digital readout	Product News, Companies
	BALANCES, dispensing	Product News, Companies
	BALANCES, electronic	Product News, Companies
	BALANCES, micro	Product News, Companies
	BALANCES, moisture	Product News, Companies
	BALANCES, single-pan	Product News, Companies
	BALANCES, specific gravity	Product News, Companies

Basic Laboratory Equipment
	AUTOCLAVES AND ACCESSORIES	Product News, Companies
	CALIBRATION EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies
	CONSTANT TEMPERATURE CHAMBERS	Product News, Companies
	CONSTANT TEMPERATURE CIRCULATORS	Product News, Companies
	CONSTANT TEMPERATURE WATER BATHS	Product News, Companies
	ELECTROPHORESIS EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES	Product News, Companies
	ELECTROPHORESIS, capillary instrumentation	Product News, Companies
	ENVIRONMENTAL ROOMS AND CHAMBERS	Product News, Companies
	FREEZING POINT APPARATUS	Product News, Companies
	HEATING DEVICES	Product News, Companies
	IMAGE ANALYSIS EQUIPMENT, single-wire detector	Product News, Companies
	MICROSCOPES, dissecting	Product News, Companies
	MICROSCOPES, research	Product News, Companies
	ULTRASONIC CLEANING EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies
	VACUUM EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies

Cell Culture
	CELL CULTURE APPARATUS	Product News, Companies
	CELL CULTURE MEDIA	Product News, Companies
	CULTURE APPARATUS, anaerobic	Product News, Companies
	CULTURE APPARATUS, bacteriological	Product News, Companies
	CULTURE APPARATUS, culture collection systems	Product News, Companies
	CULTURE APPARATUS, culture growth media and accessories	Product News, Companies
	DIFFUSION CELL APPARATUS	Product News, Companies
	FERMENTATION EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies
	HOMOGENIZERS	Product News, Companies
	HOODS, fume	Product News, Companies
	HOODS, laminar-flow	Product News, Companies
	INCUBATORS	Product News, Companies
	PROTEIN PURIFICATION / SEPARATION EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies
	SHAKERS, incubating	Product News, Companies
	SHAKERS, water bath	Product News, Companies
	TISSUE CULTURE APPARATUS AND SUPPLIES	Product News, Companies
	ULTRACENTRIFUGES	Product News, Companies
	WATER BATHS	Product News, Companies

Centrifuge
	CENTRIFUGE ACCESSORIES	Product News, Companies
	CENTRIFUGES, analytical	Product News, Companies
	CENTRIFUGES, laboratory	Product News, Companies
	CENTRIFUGES, tabletop	Product News, Companies

Chemicals & Standards
	CHEMICALS, chromatographic	Product News, Companies
	CHEMICALS, labeled	Product News, Companies
	CHEMICALS, laboratory	Product News, Companies
	CHEMICALS, standard	Product News, Companies
	STANDARDS, particle size and counter	Product News, Companies

Chromatography Equip / Supplies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, accessories	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, affinity media	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, chiral columns	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, column packings	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, columns	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, columns, fluoropolymer-lined / coated	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, GC	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, GC detectors	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, HPLC	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, HPLC column heaters	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, HPLC columns	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, HPLC detectors	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, HPLC pumps	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, HPLC sample injectors	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, HPLC switching valves	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, ion chromatography columns	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, ion chromatography process	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, ion exchange media	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, LC	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, LC detectors	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, LC pumps	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, SFC	Product News, Companies
	CHROMATOGRAPHY, SFC columns	Product News, Companies

Contamination Control
	AIR PURIFIERS	Product News, Companies
	CLEAN ROOMS	Product News, Companies
	FREEZE-DRYERS / LYOPHILIZERS	Product News, Companies
	SOLVENT RECOVERY SYSTEMS, extraction	Product News, Companies
	STEAM GENERATORS	Product News, Companies

Control Equipment / Systems
	COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE	Product News, Companies
	CONTROLLERS, pressure	Product News, Companies
	CONTROLS, airflow	Product News, Companies
	CONTROLS, freeze-drying	Product News, Companies
	CONTROLS, sensing and switching	Product News, Companies
	CONTROLS, temperature	Product News, Companies
	DATA ACQUISITION EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies
	DATA LOGGING EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies
	FLOW CONTROL SYSTEMS	Product News, Companies
	FLOWMETERS	Product News, Companies
	FLOWMETERS, sanitary design	Product News, Companies
	HUMIDITY CONTROLLERS	Product News, Companies
	INDICATORS, level	Product News, Companies
	INDICATORS, pressure	Product News, Companies
	INDUSTRIAL CONTROL DEVICES	Product News, Companies
	LIMS	Product News, Companies
	MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTATION	Product News, Companies
	MONITORS, fume hood	Product News, Companies
	PROCESS INSTRUMENTATION	Product News, Companies
	SOFTWARE	Product News, Companies

Counting Equipment / Systems
	COUNTERS, bacteriological	Product News, Companies
	COUNTERS, liquid scintillation	Product News, Companies
	COUNTERS, particle	Product News, Companies
	COUNTING DEVICES	Product News, Companies
	COUNTING SYSTEMS	Product News, Companies

Detectors
	CONTAINER LEAK DETECTION EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies
	DETECTORS, diode-array	Product News, Companies
	DETECTORS, flame ionization	Product News, Companies
	DETECTORS, fluorescence	Product News, Companies
	DETECTORS, IR	Product News, Companies
	DETECTORS, UV	Product News, Companies
	METAL DETECTORS	Product News, Companies

Dryers / Ovens
	DRYERS, glassware	Product News, Companies
	DRYERS, laboratory	Product News, Companies
	DRYERS, vacuum	Product News, Companies
	FURNACES	Product News, Companies
	OVENS	Product News, Companies

Electrodes
	ELECTRODES, conductivity	Product News, Companies
	ELECTRODES, pH	Product News, Companies
	ELECTRODES, specific ion	Product News, Companies

Filtering Equipment / Supplies
	FILTER MEDIA, paper	Product News, Companies
	FILTER MEDIA, polypropylene	Product News, Companies
	FILTERING EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies
	FILTERS, acid, alkali	Product News, Companies
	FILTERS, air sampling	Product News, Companies
	FILTERS, bacteriological	Product News, Companies
	FILTERS, glass fiber	Product News, Companies
	FILTERS, incoming water	Product News, Companies
	FILTERS, membrane	Product News, Companies
	FILTERS, paper	Product News, Companies
	FILTERS, testing apparatus	Product News, Companies
	MEMBRANE FILTRATION APPARATUS AND SUPPLIES	Product News, Companies
	REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies
	ULTRAFILTRATION EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies
	WEIGHING AND SORTING SYSTEMS	Product News, Companies
	WEIGHING SYSTEMS, automated	Product News, Companies

Inspection Devices
	CAPSULE INSPECTION MACHINES	Product News, Companies
	INSPECTION DEVICES, cans	Product News, Companies
	INSPECTION DEVICES, caps and neck seals	Product News, Companies
	INSPECTION DEVICES, capsules	Product News, Companies
	INSPECTION DEVICES, code scanning	Product News, Companies
	INSPECTION DEVICES, foreign matter	Product News, Companies
	INSPECTION DEVICES, full case	Product News, Companies
	INSPECTION DEVICES, labels	Product News, Companies
	INSPECTION DEVICES, liquid level	Product News, Companies
	INSPECTION DEVICES, pressure	Product News, Companies
	INSPECTION DEVICES, tablets	Product News, Companies

Measurement Instruments / Sensors
	COLORIMETERS	Product News, Companies
	DENSITOMETERS	Product News, Companies
	HUMIDITY METERS	Product News, Companies
	LIQUID LEVEL SENSORS	Product News, Companies
	MANOMETERS	Product News, Companies
	OXYGEN DETERMINERS	Product News, Companies
	PENETROMETERS	Product News, Companies
	pH METERS AND ACCESSORIES	Product News, Companies
	PHOTOMETERS	Product News, Companies
	POLARIMETERS, automatic	Product News, Companies
	PRESSURE SENSORS	Product News, Companies
	REFRACTOMETERS	Product News, Companies
	RHEOMOTERS	Product News, Companies
	SPECTROFLUOROMETERS	Product News, Companies
	VACUUM PRESSURE SENSORS	Product News, Companies
	VISCOMETERS	Product News, Companies

Process Equipment / Lab Scale
	BLENDERS, laboratory	Product News, Companies
	DISTILLATION EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies
	GRANULATORS, laboratory	Product News, Companies
	MACHINE VISION SYSTEMS	Product News, Companies
	MILLS, laboratory	Product News, Companies
	MIXERS, lab	Product News, Companies
	ROBOTICS, lab	Product News, Companies
	WASHER, glassware	Product News, Companies

Sieves / Size Reduction
	PARTICLE SIZE SEPARATORS	Product News, Companies
	PARTICLES, calibration	Product News, Companies
	SHAKERS, sieve	Product News, Companies
	SIEVES, lab	Product News, Companies

Spectrophotometers / Spectrometers
	SPECTROMETERS, emission	Product News, Companies
	SPECTROMETERS, mass	Product News, Companies
	SPECTROMETERS, NMR	Product News, Companies
	SPECTROMETERS, x-ray	Product News, Companies
	SPECTROPHOTOMETER ACCESSORIES	Product News, Companies
	SPECTROPHOTOMETERS, AA	Product News, Companies
	SPECTROPHOTOMETERS, color	Product News, Companies
	SPECTROPHOTOMETERS, diode-array	Product News, Companies
	SPECTROPHOTOMETERS, fluorescence	Product News, Companies
	SPECTROPHOTOMETERS, IR	Product News, Companies
	SPECTROPHOTOMETERS, NIR	Product News, Companies
	SPECTROPHOTOMETERS, other	Product News, Companies
	SPECTROPHOTOMETERS, raman	Product News, Companies
	SPECTROPHOTOMETERS, reflectance	Product News, Companies
	SPECTROPHOTOMETERS, UV	Product News, Companies
	SPECTROPHOTOMETERS, visible	Product News, Companies

Sterilizers / Autoclaves
	AUTOCLAVES, laboratory	Product News, Companies
	STERILIZERS	Product News, Companies
	STERILIZERS, ozone generators	Product News, Companies
	STERILIZERS, UV	Product News, Companies
	STERILIZERS, WATER, PURIFICATION	Product News, Companies

Supplies / Accessories
	ANIMAL CAGES AND RESTRAINERS	Product News, Companies
	ANIMAL RESEARCH EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES	Product News, Companies
	CAMERAS	Product News, Companies
	CLEANERS AND DETERGENTS	Product News, Companies
	COLONY COUNTERS	Product News, Companies
	CONDUCTIVITY METERS	Product News, Companies
	COOLING DEVICES	Product News, Companies
	DIALYSIS MEMBRANES	Product News, Companies
	ELECTRONIC TRANSMITTERS	Product News, Companies
	EVAPORATORS	Product News, Companies
	EXTRACTION APPARATUS	Product News, Companies
	FLASKS	Product News, Companies
	FURNITURE, laboratory	Product News, Companies
	GAS MIXTURES	Product News, Companies
	GLASS WARE	Product News, Companies
	GLOVES	Product News, Companies
	HUMIDITY RECORDERS	Product News, Companies
	KJELDAHL APPARATUS	Product News, Companies
	LABWARE	Product News, Companies
	LABWARE, PTFE	Product News, Companies
	PIPETTING SYSTEMS	Product News, Companies
	PRESSURE GAUGES	Product News, Companies
	PUMPS	Product News, Companies
	PYCNOMETERS	Product News, Companies
	QUALITY ASSURANCE EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies
	REACTORS, automated	Product News, Companies
	RECORDERS, charts and accessories	Product News, Companies
	RHEOMETERS	Product News, Companies
	STIRRERS	Product News, Companies
	SYRINGES	Product News, Companies
	TIME TEMPERATURE MONITORS	Product News, Companies
	TUBING, capillary	Product News, Companies
	UV LAMPS	Product News, Companies
	VORTEXERS	Product News, Companies
	WIPERS	Product News, Companies

Temperature Equipment / Instruments
	TEMPERATURE CIRCULATORS, constant	Product News, Companies
	TEMPERATURE CONTROLLERS, heating equipment	Product News, Companies
	TEMPERATURE CONTROLLERS, liquid (low temperatures)	Product News, Companies
	TEMPERATURE INSTRUMENTATION	Product News, Companies
	TEMPERATURE PROBES	Product News, Companies
	TEMPERATURE RECORDERS	Product News, Companies
	TEMPERATURE TRANSMITTERS	Product News, Companies
	THERMOMETERS, dial reading	Product News, Companies
	THERMOMETERS, digital readout	Product News, Companies
	THERMOMETERS, electrical, remote reading	Product News, Companies
	THERMOMETERS, electronic	Product News, Companies
	THERMOMETERS, recording	Product News, Companies
	THERMOMETERS, surface	Product News, Companies

Testing Devices
	CHLORINE TESTING EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies
	DISINTEGRATION TESTERS	Product News, Companies
	DISSOLUTION ANALYSIS EQUIPMENT	Product News, Companies
	FRIABILATORS	Product News, Companies
	MOISTURE DETERMINATION APPARATUS	Product News, Companies
	POWDER TESTING	Product News, Companies
	TABLET DISSOLUTION APPARATUS	Product News, Companies
	TABLET TESTING SYSTEMS	Product News, Companies
	TESTING DEVICES	Product News, Companies
	TESTING DEVICES, container leaks	Product News, Companies
	TESTING DEVICES, humidity	Product News, Companies
	TESTING DEVICES, pressure	Product News, Companies
	TESTING DEVICES, static electricity	Product News, Companies
	TESTING DEVICES, sterility	Product News, Companies
	TESTING DEVICES, suppositories	Product News, Companies
	TESTING DEVICES, tablet hardness	Product News, Companies
	TESTING DEVICES, temperature	Product News, Companies
	TESTING DEVICES, water	Product News, Companies

Titration Equipment
	TITRATION APPARATUS	Product News, Companies
	TITRATOR, potentiometric	Product News, Companies
	TITRATORS, coulometric	Product News, Companies
	TITRATORS, Karl Fischer	Product News, Companies

Viscometers
	VISCOMETERS, automatic	Product News, Companies
	VISCOMETERS, falling ball	Product News, Companies
	VISCOMETERS, general purpose	Product News, Companies

Water Purification Systems
	STILLS, water	Product News, Companies
	WATER PURIFICATION, carbon adsorption	Product News, Companies
	WATER PURIFICATION, deionization	Product News, Companies
	WATER PURIFICATION, distillation	Product News, Companies
	WATER PURIFICATION, ozonation	Product News, Companies
	WATER PURIFICATION, reverse-osmosis	Product News, Companies

Small Doses

Bigger, Better, Faster

by Mike Auerbach, Editor

Mike Auerbach, Editor Pharmaceutical Processing

People love new, shiny things. If marketers claim something is new and improved - it has to better than the old stuff - right? Detroit used this scheme for many years. Every year they introduced new models that were claimed to be bigger, better and faster than last year's models. In the 60's lower, wider and longer was the phrase that attracted people. Who would want last year's car when this year's car was so much better? You would have to be stupid or just plain gullible to buy something “old”. Based on the state of the U.S. auto industry right now, maybe this wasn't such a good idea.

Pharmaceutical companies and their marketing divisions are now employing this same tactic. New drugs with flashy marketing campaigns are everywhere - you see them on TV, on the internet - ads extolling the virtues of the latest drug have become as ubiquitous as ads for cars - do I sense a trend here?

So are these new drugs with their omnipresent marketing campaigns any better than the “old” drugs they are meant to replace? The short answer is “not always.”

In a recent opinion piece on the The New York Times website, Dr. Richard Friedman retells the case of a woman with bipolar disorder who was on an “exotic cocktail of drugs” including a “sedative, a new mood stabilizer and the latest antipsychotic medication.” When he polled his residents as to what was wrong with her treatment - he was met with silence - until one resident spoke up and mentioned the patient was never offered lithium - the single most effective treatment for bipolar disorder.

In this example, are the residents really to blame for not realizing their mistake? They have been brought up and educated by a society that extols the virtues of newer is ALWAYS better. In this case, lithium is an old drug with no potential for blockbuster status. Why waste marketing money on something old?

Bigger, better, faster is not always the rule in the pharma industry.

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