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World Standards Day: Recognizing How Standards Enable a Strong Medicines Supply Chain

Quality Matters

can get a prescription filled at our neighborhood pharmacy and trust that the medicine we receive will be safe and work as it should. In a 2019 report on drug shortages, the FDA found that 62% of drug shortages occur because of quality issues in manufacturing. In fact, quality standards are a big reason why we in the U.S.