This time around, more about BET (Bacterial Endotoxin Testing) and why we take it so seriously at Hartley Medical Pharmacy. By 2003, as a result of my professional journey through intrathecal drug therapy, I had amassed a great deal more knowledge of and experience with endotoxin testing. I purchased an instrument – PYROSKINETIX – manufactured [...]

Endotoxins are important to me. In addition to impacting the core function of my chosen field – intrathecal drug therapy — they are a singularly fascinating phenomenon. I take them – and Bacterial Endotoxin Testing (BET) — very seriously.
Endotoxins are small impurities present in bacteria. They are actually sections of bacterial walls – more specifically, [...]

One of my mentors, Dr. Lawrence Trissel, a well-known expert in chemical testing of pharmaceuticals and stability studies in sterile compounding, conducted a study where he took two lab technicians at the end of the day, and had them do 100 preparations, drawing up liquid-growth media into 100 syringes. Once all were tapped and set [...]

As part of my never-ending quest for quality perfection, I have always sought out equipment to help Hartley Medical ensure the optimum in quality assurance testing. We recently acquired a new instrument of which I am exceedingly proud, and my son Gordon has suggested I talk about it.
More than ten years ago, I considered purchasing [...]

Not long ago, at a pharmaceuticals convention, I was approached by a doctor who told me that he had, just minutes ago, met one of our quality assurance technicians at our booth. He simply wanted to say that he was profoundly impressed by the fact that we had such an individual on our staff – [...]

Remember dot matrix printers? At one time they were the accepted standard for all things printed. Then they came out with Laser Printers. And when you saw it perform for the first time all you could say was…wow.
 I bought that printer – at first sight. I wanted that kind of quality evidenced in every [...]