Meeting Report: Summary of Abbreviated Impactor Measurement Workshop Organized By the European Pharmaceutical Aerosol Group

Abstract

This year, the Drugs Delivery to the Lungs 21 conference broke new ground with the first half-day devoted to a workshop focusing on experimental aspects of the abbreviated impactor measurement concept. The workshop had the following objectives: to define what further needs to be done experimentally to establish abbreviated impactor measurement; and to identify the pathway towards adoption of existing methods into the pharmacopeias, as the next step towards what is hoped will eventually be acceptance by the key regulatory agencies in Europe, Canada and the USA.

Financial & competing interests disclosure

Steve C Nichols is an independent specialist consultant in OINDPs. Jolyon Mitchell is a full-time employee of Trudell Medical International. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

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