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Preventing fungal contamination in pharmaceuticals

European Pharmaceutical Review

Additionally, this can be caused by “poor handling, repackaging, and nonadherence to good manufacturing practices [GMP] during dispensing and packaging have resulted in the microbiological contamination of non-sterile pharmaceutical products.” Ahmed et al.

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PDA revises report on glass container manufacturing

European Pharmaceutical Review

The long-awaited PDA TR 43 report provides an approach to a quality decision-making process and represents best practices for the identification and classification of visual nonconformities for (empty) glass containers as pharmaceutical product packaging. Appendix).

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Why Are FDA Inspections So Ineffective and Disappointing?

The People's Pharmacy

The same was true of another of the company’s products, Delsam Pharma Artificial Eye Ointment , which the company voluntarily recalled shortly after. “The FDA said Global Pharma failed to use adequate, tamper-evident packaging and distributed the drugs without proper preservatives.”

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Fixed-dose combination: Considerations for design, formulation, manufacturing and analysis

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pharmaceutical companies – and the FDA – are embracing FDCs. From 1990 through 2013, the FDA approved 131 FDC products, on average 5.7 The potential to extend the patent life and market exclusivity of a company’s APIs is a potent financial incentive. More FDC products flowing into pharma pipelines.

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CMC Requirements for New Drug Registration in Latin America

ISPE

In an era when the world is accelerating the development of drugs and targeted medicines using innovative technologies, pharmaceutical companies still face registration hurdles for well-characterized molecules because of redundant or additional local regulatory requirements.

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What to Keep in Your Integrative Medicine Cabinet

The Thyroid Pharmacist

Follow package instructions. Follow package directions for each supplement. Sleep issues: I like to recommend Epsom salt baths, which contain magnesium that is absorbed through the skin (1 cup of salts per tub – follow package instructions, and don’t overdo it!), Published 2013 Dec 26. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2019;1182:1-37.