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						Pharmaceutical Process QCThe US 
						Food and Drug Administration’s Process Analytical Technology (PAT) Initiative offers an unprecedented opportunity for chemical process equipment manufacturers to expand their product offerings into a growing high-demand market.
 
 As the pharmaceutical industry shifts its focus from drug discovery to efficient 
						drug production, driven by offshore competition in manufacturing and the 
						largest "baby boom" demand in history, process optimization offers 
						fresh new challenges for monitoring and control.
 
 Pharmaceutical Applications
 Micro-reactor monitoring
						Fermentation processes
						End-point determination
						Feed stock integrity
						Detection of residues in batch processing
 
 Distributed sensors offer many advantages over mainframe PMS in a pharmaceutical 
						manufacturing environment. (See: Chemical Process Monitoring.)
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