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How Microbial Preservation Supports Quality and Safety in Compounding Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

Mark Mulvahill, MBA, MSc, discusses the importance of microbial preservation and reference materials in pharmaceutical manufacturing and compounding pharmacies, highlighting their role in contamination control, regulatory compliance, and enhancing microbiological testing reliability.

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Legal Battles Intensify: Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Lawsuits Targeting Compounding Pharmacies

Pharmacy Times

Analyzing the patent and trademark challenges faced by 503A compounding pharmacies.

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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

In a 2019 report on drug shortages, the FDA found that 62% of drug shortages occur because of quality issues in manufacturing. Quality issues in pharmaceutical manufacturing can arise in many ways. USP engaged its scientific committee and quickly developed standards to support the production of quality hand sanitizers.