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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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Pharma pollution ‘threatens world environment, health’; study

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One in four of the world’s rivers are polluted with potentially toxic levels of pharma compounds, according to a new study.

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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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Q&A with Mrunal Jaywant: How the Discovery of Nitrosamines in Medicines Shifted the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Landscape

Quality Matters

FDA: The FDA provided recommended AIs for over 260 NDSRIs based on predicted carcinogenic potency categorization and four NDSRIs based on compound-specific data or read-across analysis from a surrogate and recommended interim AI limits for two NDSRIs, N-nitroso-duloxetine (600 ng/day) and N-nitroso-ciprofloxacin (12,000 ng/day).

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$3 trillion growth reported for biotech sector

European Pharmaceutical Review

Sectors such as research, testing, medical labs and pharmaceutical manufacturing expanded greatly during the pandemic, due to high demand for COVID-19 therapeutics. To date, 747 novel compounds are in production. Since 2018, employment numbers in the industry have grown by 11 percent, totalling $2.9 trillion dollars in 2021.

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Rapid pseudomonas aeruginosa detection method developed

European Pharmaceutical Review

The study used medications labelled as “sterile, oral and topical preparations, components of formulations for micro-pellicle media, re-agents, and chemical compounds for achieving selectivity, factors promoting multiplication, and inhibition factors.” aeruginosa bacteria in pure culture, mixed culture, or other research materials.

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Impacts of pharmaceutical pollution on communities and environment in India

Express Pharma

Although less commonly discussed, pharmaceutical compounds can also become airborne. This can occur through the evaporation of volatile substances or the incineration of pharmaceutical waste, potentially affecting air quality and contributing to broader environmental pollution.