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Tablets & Capsules April 2019 43 facilities are capable of offering com- pliant drug serialization and have delivered serialized batches within Europe. The facilities, located in France, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Ger- many, the UK, Portugal, and India, are all connected to customers, allowing them to report serial num- bers to the EU Hub. In 2016, the CDMO launched a three-year pro- gram to provide compliant serializa- tion for its customers before the EU Falsified Medicines Directive and the US Drug Supply Chain Security Act deadlines. Recro Gainesville to continue supplying Novartis products Gainesville, GA—Recro Gaines- ville has entered into a 5-year manu- facturing and supply agreement with Novartis Pharma, extending the com- panies' previous supply agreements for Ritalin LA and Focalin XR cap- sules through 2023. Under the terms of the agreement, Recro will continue to be the exclusive global supplier of the two Novartis products. people news Catalent, Somerset, NJ, promoted Alessandro Maselli from senior vice president of global operations to president and chief executive officer. The company's four business-unit presidents will report to Maselli, who will also oversee the leaders of global sales and marketing and global qual- ity and regulatory affairs. USP presented R. Christian Moreton with the 2018 Jacob Bigelow award at the 2019 USP Joint Volunteer Leadership Meeting award dinner in Washington, DC. The award acknowledges Moreton's dedi- cation and important contributions to USP's standards-setting and processes. Moreton currently serves as chairman of the IPEC Foundation, the organiza- tion's charitable arm, previously served as Chairman of IPEC-Americas from 2003 to 2004, and participates in the Quality by Design and Excipient Composition Committees, Learning Lab Tea, and other IPEC initiatives. ISPE Biopharmaceutical Manufactur- ing Conference. June 18-20 in Boston, MA. Conducted by International Soci- ety for Pharmaceutical Engineers. (www.ispe.org, 301 364 9201). ISPE Process Validation Workshop. June 20-21 in Boston, MA. Conducted by International Society for Pharma- ceutical Engineers. (www.ispe.org, 301 364 9201). DIA Global Annual Meeting. June 23-27 in San Diego, CA. Conducted by Drug Information Association. (www.diaglobal.org, 215 442 6100). Chemical Development & Scale-Up in the Fine Chemical & Pharmaceuti- cal Industries. June 24-26 in Brussels, Belgium. Conducted by Scientific Update. (www.scientificupdate.com, +44 1435 873 062). Investigational Medicinal Products - QP Module. June 24-27 in London, UK. Conducted by NSF. (www.nsf. org, 734 769 8010). 21 CFR 111 Dietary Supplement GMP Overview. June 26-27 in Tuk- wila, WA. Conducted by NSF. (www. nsf.org, 734 769 8010). Changing GMP Behaviours Work- shop. June 27-28 in Manchester, UK. Conducted by NSF. (www.nsf.org, 734 769 8010). SOP and Record Keeping. June 28 in Tukwila, WA. Conducted by NSF. (www.nsf.org, 734 769 8010). supplier news ACG opens capsule manufacturing plant in Brazil POUSO ALEGRE, Brazil—ACG, a pharmaceutical solution supplier, opened a 14,000-square-meter capsule manufacturing plant in Pouso Alegre, Brazil, that will create about 500 local jobs. This is the company's second manufacturing facility in the region following its acquisition of Nova Nor- deplast, a films and foils manufacturer. Recipharm achieves serialization at all facilities STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Reci- pharm announced that all of its 15 advertiser index B Best Formulations 32F Biocaps Enterprises 34 Budenheim 40 D Distek 9 F Flo Chemical 15 G Gelita 32C Genex Bio-tech USA 32D I IMA 19 J Jost Chemical 32E K Key International 7 Kikusui USA 1 L Lonza 5 N Natoli Cover 4 Q Qualicaps 8 R Recro Gainesville 13 Ribus 32H S Soft Gel Technologies 32G Sotax 22 Suheung Capsule 23 T Techceuticals 29 Technophar 25 Thomas Engineering 3 Tower Laboratories 39 Tri-Star Technologies Cover 2 V Vac-U-Max 6