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Supplier qualification standard aims to strengthen supply chains for quality medicines, dietary supplements, and foods

Quality Matters

While focuses on evaluating and establishing supplier reliability for pharmaceutical manufacturing companies and compounding pharmacies, its high-level elements of supplier qualification can also be applied to suppliers of foods and dietary supplement ingredients.

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

Quality Matters

There are also related standards that address a wide range of topics such as packaging, storage and distribution of medicines, the preparation of compounded medicines and prescription labeling. In a 2019 report on drug shortages, the FDA found that 62% of drug shortages occur because of quality issues in manufacturing.