About the Authors

Alan-Shaun Wilkinson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

alan@biopharmatesting.co.uk

Affiliation Biopharma Stability Testing Laboratory Ltd, BioCity Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Michael Charles Allwood

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biopharma Stability Testing Laboratory Ltd, BioCity Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Colin Patrick Morris

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Biopharma Stability Testing Laboratory Ltd, BioCity Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Andrew Wallace

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Biopharma Stability Testing Laboratory Ltd, BioCity Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Rebecca Finnis

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Biopharma Stability Testing Laboratory Ltd, BioCity Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Ewelina Kaminska

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Biopharma Stability Testing Laboratory Ltd, BioCity Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Donata Stonkute

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Biopharma Stability Testing Laboratory Ltd, BioCity Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Maja Szramowska

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Biopharma Stability Testing Laboratory Ltd, BioCity Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Joe Miller

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Biopharma Stability Testing Laboratory Ltd, BioCity Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Ian Pengelly

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL), Harpur Hill, Buxton, United Kingdom

Michael Hemingway

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL), Harpur Hill, Buxton, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The work described was performed in accordance with a research grant from Teva Pharmaceuticals www.teva.com. Funding for this project was provided by Teva Pharmaceuticals. Alan-Shaun Wilkinson, Michael Allwood, Colin Morris, Andrew Wallace, Rebecca Finnis, Ewelina Kaminska, Donata Stonkute, Maja Szramowska, and Joe Miller report employment with Biopharma Stability Testing Laboratory, which received research funding from Teva Pharmaceuticals to conduct this study. Ian Pengelly and Michael Hemingway report employment with The Health and Safety Laboratory, which received research funding from Biopharma Stability Testing Laboratory, which was contracted by Teva Pharmaceuticals to conduct this study. The authors can confirm that Teva Pharmaceuticals played no role in any of the following: study design, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, writing of the paper, and/or decision to submit for publication. Alan-Shaun Wilkinson can confirm that in the past 5 years he has been invited to present research work through both oral presentations and poster at international conferences and travel costs have been provided by Teva Pharmaceuticals. The co-authors can confirm that this commercial affiliation does not alter their adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials (as detailed online in the guide for authors http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/competing-interests). As per the PLOS ONE policy all potential competing interests have been declared for the purposes of transparency. The authors have read the information provided at the website link on competing interests: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/competing-interests and verify that there are no competing interests outside of what has been declared here.