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Spray Patterns BY AVA CARIDAD Editorial Director Ball Corp.’s Colorado-based employees donated more than 22,000 pounds of canned food for the company’s 2014 “Let’s Can Hunger” food drive to benefit Community Food Share. The food collected, combined with employee donations and The Ball Foundation’s dollar per pound match, will enable Community Food Share to provide nearly 145,000 meals to those in need in Broomfield and Boulder Counties. This was the second time Ball participated in Community Food Share’s Compete to Beat Hunger Corporate Challenge in 2014. Bayer MaterialScience was honored in the “Functional Ingredients” category at the Personal Care & Homecare Ingredients (PCHi) tradeshow awards in Shanghai for the development of innovative hair care solutions with the film-forming agent Baycusan C 1008. Hair care products formulated with the polyurethane dispersion help to protect hair against extreme heat. They also help prevent hair from frizzing and are capable of “cementing” split ends. 46 Spray September 2014 Twenty-year-old Harvard University students Brooke Nowakowski and John McCallum have created what they call “Spray Cake”—cake batter in an aerosol can. Their new invention started off as a class project and is now gaining nation-wide attention. Spray Cake’s batter can be made into cupcakes in as little as 30 seconds in a microwave and full size cakes in about one minute. In a recent competition, Spray Cake won the Harvard Innovation Challenge, as well as The Ad Club’s “Brand-a-thon.” The college juniors have stated they already have a seller lined up and are now just looking for a local manufacturer. “Honestly, we were kind of shocked that it hadn’t been done before,” Nowakowski told the press in a recent interview. The students have stated that the batter is organic and contains similar ingredients to the box cake variety. However, it doesn’t contain baking soda or baking powder because the whipped cream-style aerosol can allows the batter to rise in the container. With over 70 years in the aerosol business between them, John Leuszler of Dupont (left) and Bob Swiatecki of American Spraytech finally took a break to play golf together. Did they skip out on a work day? We’ll never know. Photo courtesy of Greg Mas, Falcon Safety Products. Aptar Pharma recently held an Inhaler Adherence roundtable in Paris, France. The theme of the roundtable was “Inhaler Adherence, Exploring Key Factors,” and it delved into the issue of poor adherence by patients using inhalers. The panel consisted of five eminent leaders specializing in inhaler adherence from France and the UK: Beverley Bostock, Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Lead, Warwickshire, UK; Dr. Nayna Govind, NG Pharma Consulting Ltd, UK; Dr. Kevin Gruffydd-Jones, GP, RCGP Respiratory Clinical Lead, Wiltshire, UK; Christine Loveridge, Respiratory Clinical Lead, Education for Health, UK; and Nicolas Roche, Head of Pulmonary Service, Central Paris University Hospital, France. Topics debated included: current guidance with regard to therapy/inhaler prescriptions; specific healthcare professional and patient issues and unmet needs with inhaler devices; potential avenues for making more adherence-friendly inhalers; and health care costs, reimbursement and emerging therapies. Following the discussion and input from the participants, Aptar Pharma prepared a scientific publication titled Inhaler Adherence, Exploring Key Factors, now available at http://www. aptar.com/docs/default-source/pharma-prescription/inhaleradherence_ roundtable_reprint.pdf?sfvrsn=2


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