On-site measurement services.

After commercializing the first laser-based headspace inspection platforms in the pharmaceutical industry more than a decade ago with funding from the Food & Drug Administration, LIGHTHOUSE platforms have analyzed and inspected millions of parenteral containers at sterile pharmaceutical facilities around the world.

Because customers are not always able to invest in the purchase of their own headspace systems, LIGHTHOUSE also offers a portfolio of Measurement Services. One of these is On-Site Measurement Services.

Customers can take advantage of On-Site Measurement Services by making a request for LIGHTHOUSE Application Scientists to bring and operate equipment on site for a short term measurement activity. This is usually done in cases where it is difficult to send product off-site to a LIGHTHOUSE laboratory facility for analysis, or for time critical finished product inspection activities involving small batches of product samples. LIGHTHOUSE Application Scientists can be available on short notice to bring headspace equipment on site, validate the equipment if necessary, remain on site to perform measurements on product samples, and then return to LIGHTHOUSE.

Headspace analysis of parenteral containers enables insight into many sterile processes as well as into the quality of finished product. The wide variety of applications includes container closure studies, headspace oxygen stability studies, vacuum leak detection of freeze dried vials, freeze drying cycle optimization, and nitrogen purging efficiency studies. By setting up resources dedicated to Headspace Measurement Services, LIGHTHOUSE will now make this expertise and measurement capability available to clients on a project basis.