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Other Committees

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Solids Processing and Tablet Compression Committee (SPTCC)

In November 1999, the Tablet Compression Committee and Solids Processing Committee were merged to form the Solids Processing and Tablet Compression Committee. (SPTCC)

Of the many topics where beneficial exchanges have been held, thirteen stand out, as follows:

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Tablet Packaging Best Practices Committee (TPBPC)

This committee was started in July 1998 as a working party with the aim to make packaging lines more adaptable and flexible in line with demand for more pack sizes and colours.

It was found that most issues relating to adaptability were machine or line specific, and thus should be left to the individual pharma companies. However, it emerged that members had many operational issues in common where benefit could be gained by the type of roundtable exchange and benchmarking employed by the Solids Processing and Tablet Compression Committee. Exchanges from which members have derived considerable benefit include ones about:


Recently the committee has focussed on:

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Sterile Operations Committee (SOC)

The SOC started in 1999 as a sub-committee of the General Membership Committee, focusing on the unique technical and operating problems facing engineers involved in supporting sterile / aseptic manufacturing.

The scope of SOC's meetings have now expanded to include sessions aimed at improving working practices, operator / technician training and production line efficiency.
Currently the SOC meetings feature sessions about: