Results from a bench marking survey on cassette dosing practices in the pharmaceutical industry

Results from a survey on CD, conducted on behalf of the ASMS Pharmaceutical Interest Group, are presented which provide an assessment of current practices used in the pharmaceutical industry. The purpose of the present report is to disseminate this information, in accordance with a key objective of the Pharmaceutical Interest Group to act as a conduit for benchmark analysis on topics of pharmaceutical interest. Based the level of interaction achieve at the 2003 workshop, it was decided that a similar format would be used in 2004. The topic selected for benchmark analysis is the support of chemical synthesis by MS. In closing, gratitude is expressed towards all who participated in the 2003 workshop.