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Call to arms as UK falls back in medicines manufacturing

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Over the last 25 years, the headcount in the medicines manufacturing sector has fallen by 7,000 and since 2009 production volumes have fallen by nearly a third (29%), suggesting “faltering attractiveness” of the UK for manufacturing. ” Image from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI).

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How to get acquisition ready – a seller’s guide to merger and acquisition in pharma

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In 2018, over 60% of all new molecular entities came from smaller biopharma firms, compared with just over 30% in 2009. In the last 15 years, there has been a noticeable shift towards many prominent players effectively outsourcing innovation to start-ups due to the increasing cost of R&D.

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Beyond instruments: streamlining process technology implementation in biopharmaceutical manufacturing

European Pharmaceutical Review

Implementing PAT in (bio)pharmaceutical manufacturing New sensors or larger equipment with more complex setups (software and hardware) require stringent procedures to become fully implemented in a good manufacturing practice (GMP) manufacturing facility. International Council for Harmonisation (ICH), 2009.

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Purdue to pay $8.3bn after admitting criminal charges in opioid case

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billion in civil damages to states affected by the opioid crisis, which the Department of Justice said was the largest penalties ever levied against a pharmaceutical manufacturer. It admitted to bribing two doctors to write more prescriptions of OxyContin as well as other drugs between June 2009 and March 2017.

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Tracking the Drug Trail

Pharmaceutical Technology

Consequently, the implementation of track and trace systems for pharmaceuticals is becoming more important as countries make it a legal requirement. For example, Turkey will require track and trace by 1 January 2009 and California is requiring the technology by 1 January 2011.

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WHO cough mixture health alerts raises questions about slack compliance in manufacturing

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The WHO said there have been other fatalities in the same vein: in 1995 in Haiti and again in 2006 in Panama which led to the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) adopting a Gas Chromatography (GC) method capable of separating and quantifying ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol in Glycerin in a revised monograph from 2009.