Hanson Research Adds Industry Leaders to Board of Directors May 20, 2004, Los Angeles,California– California-based Hanson Research Corporation, a worldwide leader in dissolution technology for over 50 years, has added two senior industry executives to its Board of Directors.     Roy Hanson,Hanson Research CEO,announced the election of Mr.Val Buonaiuto to the Board of Directors and the appointment of Mr. Robert Demorest as Special Advisor to the Board.     Mr. Buonaiuto has vast experience in the analytical instrument industry,having served in his distinguished career as General Manager for International Sales and Service at Perkin-Elmer,and as President & CEO of Hitachi Instruments, Inc. USA.     Mr.Demorest is current President & CEO of MOCON Inc.,a Minneapolis-based manufacturer of high technology instrumentation for the life science,medical,food,pharmaceutical, petrochemical and electronics industries.     "I am pleased to welcome both of these industry veterans to the Hanson organization",commented Roy Hanson,CEO."Both appointments demonstrate our continued commitment to advancing our technology,management,and leadership.We will continue to strive to provide our customers with innovative solutions to help promote pharmaceutical quality assurance worldwide". New Pre-Packaged Dissolution Media FORT COLLINS,CO, July 16,2004– CHATA Biosystems introduces a new packaging solution for dissolution media. CHATA's patented CHEM+NECT™ packaging technology provides a disposable, closed-system alternative to the traditional and potentially hazardous preparation of dissolution media. Pre-mixed CHEM+NECT™ dissolution media are available as off-the-shelf products or manufactured to customer specifications using reagent grade components to ensure equivalence. CHEM+NECT™ solutions are also offered with stability data to validate long-term consistency. The solutions come shipped with a Certificate of Analysis including product specifications such as ion concentration, UV scan and sterility results to ensure cGMP compliance.     CHATA is a manufacturer of a wide range of pre-packaged chemical solution products designed for greater lab productivity and efficiency in pharmaceutical research, manufacturing and QA/QC.     For more information, please contact: Jerald Kuiken, jkuiken@chatasolutions.com
Official Opening Ceremony for the ERWEKA Quality Control Laboratory at the University of Frankfurt Another milestone in the training of pharmaceutical scientists in Frankfurt.
On the 2nd of July, new quality control facilities in the Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Frankfurt were officially opened. The facilities, which provide state-of-the-art instrumentation for quality control of solid dosage forms, were made possible by a sponsorship from Erweka GmbH in the sum of €50,000. Erweka, which is one of the leading manufacturers of testing equipment and development scale manufacturing equipment worldwide, has its headquarters near to Frankfurt in Heusenstamm (www.erweka. de). Mr.Werner Müller, CEO of Erweka, described the donation as "necessary to provide Frankfurt students with a practical knowledge of the latest equipment and thereby to secure their competitiveness in the global work environment".     The quality control labs are an essential part of the Institute's dedication to bringing GMP concepts into the Pharmacy curriculum. The Institute enjoys the status of being the only Pharmacy program in Germany to possess a GMP licence and has worked hard to upgrade its production facilities over the last years. Documentation has been another focus area, and thanks to a similar donation from a local wholesaler (Phoenix GmbH) a study center with individual computer learning facilities has also been put in place. With the addition of the quality control laboratories, Frankfurt is in the unique position of being able to provide an elective course in GMP to Pharmacy undergraduates. Naturally,graduate students and research projects are also beneficiaries of the new facilities.     Dr. Sabine Kopp, secretary of the WHO Expert Committee on Safety and Quality: medicines, presented the opening ceremony lecture on the topic of "Safety and Quality of Medicines in Developing Countries". Her committee works on important issues such as regulation of GMP, approval requirements and quality control of multi-source products in developing countries as well as tackling the problem of drug counterfeiting, which is growing at an alarming rate worldwide. Dr. Sabine Kopp	Dr. Jennifer Dressman and Mr.Werner Müller Touring the new ERWEKA Quality Control Laboratory Touring the new ERWEKA Quality Control Laboratory