Biopharmaceutical Raw Material Verification with Handheld Vaya Raman Spectrometer

Raw Material Identification (RMID) and Verification is an integral part of Quality Assurance-Quality Control (QA-QC) in the biopharmaceutical industry, impacting customer safety, production speed, and cost.

Handheld Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS) spectrometers have become vital tools for RMID applications. These compact devices can penetrate challenging containers such as amber glass and paper bags, ensuring accurate identification of biopharmaceutical raw materials. Their portability affords a high-throughput, reliable, and convenient solution for RMID, meeting the stringent compliance requirements of the biopharmaceutical industry.

Presenter. Yanqia Wang, PhD (Application Engineer, Molecular Spectroscopy, Agilent Technologies, Inc.)

Dr. Yanqia Wang started working for Agilent Technologies Inc. as a FTIR application Engineer in 2013, providing pre-&post-sale application support. The products he covers from Bench-top FTIR microscopes to various Mobile FTIR spectrometers. Dr. Wang received his PhD of analytical chemistry from Duke University in 2004, doing dynamic IR spectroscopy research. Then he joined Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics at Duke University, doing Tissue Raman spectrometer instrumentation. Since 2007, Dr. Wang worked for Avery Dennison Corp. as a spectroscopist, providing molecular analytical support to the research & development.