Cobalt Light Systems’ RapID can identify raw materials through the side of unopened packaging. The pharmaceutical industry spends significant time and resources on verifying the identity of raw materials before they enter the manufacturing process. Accurate QC of these materials is essential and can be very time consuming, expensive and resource intensive. This instrument offers significant cost savings because most raw materials can now be accurately identified without even opening the packaging. The company’s patented technique known as Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS) is at the heart of the system. A key advantage of SORS is that it can measure a highly specific Raman spectrum of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API’s) and excipients through unopened sacks, bottles, colored glass and opaque plastic containers. The analysis instrument supersedes the entire notion of opening bags or bottles of raw material to take a sample, which is then sent to the QC lab for testing. Now, the process of verifying the material and getting it into manufacturing is faster, more cost-effective and can be done as soon as the goods hit the loading bay. Operation can be done by non-scientific personnel with a simple, handheld “point and shoot” measurement tool. Cobalt Light Systems Ltd. www.cobaltlight.com, +44 1235 433 187