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Industry news 6 Industry innovations 43 Calendar 44 Supplier news 44 People news 46 Product update 46 Spotlight on Nutraceuticals 32A TABLETS & CAPSULES quality, validation, and regulatory compliance Automated ink-removal system for blinding clinical trial materials 8 Linda A. Felton, Cody J. Wiley, and Bruce C. Cathcart Assessing how the physical properties and enhanced powder flow of HMPC translate to process control during 14 direct compression of matrix tablets True L. Rogers, Kathryn O. Hewlett, Jörg Theuerkauf, Karen M. Balwinski, and Madhusudhan Kodam Issue focus: Quality, validation & regulatory compliance 24 Non-destructive options for leak-testing blister packages 30 Philip Stevenson Blister packaging: A survey of what's available 33 Eye on Excipients 37 Ryan Cheng Tablet and capsule identification: A survey of what's available 42 Back Page 48 Fernando J. Muzzio Tablets & Capsules (ISSN 1549-9928 print; ISSN 1938-9159 online) is published eight times a year in January, March, April, May, July, September, October, and November by CSC Publishing, Inc., 1155 Northland Drive, Saint Paul, MN 55120. Periodicals postage paid at Saint Paul, MN, and additional mailing office. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Tablets & Capsules, 1155 Northland Drive, Saint Paul, MN 55120. departments w w w . t a b l e t s c a p s u l e s . c o m October 2014 Volume 12 Number 7 also in this issue Meet the staff of Tablets & Capsules at booth 3318 at the annual AAPS conference and exposition November 2-6 in San Diego, CA. If you're not attending, you can reach us anytime by e-mail at tc@cscpub.com and by following us on Twitter: @TabletsCapsules. You're a l s o i n v i t e d t o j o i n o u r webinar on November 11 about resolving tablet defects. See page 47 for more information. (This section appears four times yearly in issues delivered to our nutraceutical readership.)