Featured Pharma Online Editorial
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Pharmaceutical Transport Validation — Where To Begin?
9/6/2019
This article provides a road map for transport validation, which is used to qualify packaging for the entire product supply chain. When transport validation is done incompletely, poorly, or not at all, it can result in off-label drugs that are potentially harmful to patients.
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Cutting Packaging Costs: What Life Sciences Can Learn From Consumer Packaged Goods
7/11/2019
Industries can (and should) learn from one another. As the life sciences market continues to become more competitive and social pressure to reduce healthcare costs increases, consumer packaged goods (CPG) approaches and strategies to cut packaging costs can be applied to life sciences to achieve these objectives.
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DSCSA’s 2023 Interoperability Requirements: Don’t Just Check The Compliance Box
6/27/2019
The Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) requires creation of an interoperable system by 2023 to facilitate the sharing and gathering of transactional information back to the packaging at the original manufacturer for authorized trading partners or government agents in the event of a suspicious or illegitimate product. How will this system work and what components and governance will be required?
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New FDA Powers Under The SUPPORT Act — What Pharma Manufacturers Need To Know
12/19/2018
Drug manufacturers should be aware of new regulatory powers given to the FDA in a recently enacted law aimed at deterring opioid abuse. The Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act (SUPPORT Act) became law on Oct. 24, 2018 with bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate.