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What is a Compounding Pharmacy?

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If your doctor’s office has given you a prescription with instructions to fill it at a compounding pharmacy, you might be wondering what exactly this means. Only around 7,500 are compounding pharmacies, of which only 3,000 perform sterile compounding. What does it mean when a pharmacy is compounding?

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Preventing fungal contamination in pharmaceuticals

European Pharmaceutical Review

In a review on fungal-contaminated compounded pharmaceuticals and medical devices, researchers have described how the contamination of these products can be due to breaches in sterile compounding procedures. Ahmed et al. One case of drug contamination from 2021 was highlighted in the paper.

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Why demand is rising for secure and climate-controlled gene therapy services

Pharmaceutical Technology

It is critical to understand the supply chain, plan your packaging, storage and distribution lanes, then test the entire process before patient shipments go live. Products are stored and packaged in a dedicated suite by a dedicated team,” explains MacNeir. The requirements When handling personalised medicines, time is of the essence.

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The lingering menace of diethylene glycol / ethylene glycol adulteration

European Pharmaceutical Review

The 1938 law effectively changed the focus of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from a policing agency to a regulatory agency tasked with overseeing the safety evaluation of new drug products. There is now global awareness of this issue and FDA issued a guidance note on the problem in 2007. 5 Both compounds are limited to ≤0.1

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After Alexion buy, AZ plans $360m investment in Irish facilities

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“The future manufacturing of APIs for our medicines includes compounds with highly complex synthesis, requiring next generation technologies and capabilities that can respond quickly and nimbly to rapidly-changing clinical and commercial needs,” said Pam Cheng, AZ’s executive vice president of global operations and IT.

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IN FOCUS: Solvias

Pharmaceutical Technology

Research and development highlights from the research period include the company’s work with Mirati Therapeutics in developing methods to determine torsion rotational energy barriers of the clinical compound, MRTX1719, which is being developed for use as an inhibiter to MTAP-deleted cancers. Quality control release testing.

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FDA guidance highlights E&L considerations for ophthalmic drug products

European Pharmaceutical Review

Draft guidance published by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December 2023, discussed quality considerations for topical ophthalmic drug products, including key considerations for extractables and leachables (E&L) testing. Ophthalmic drug products should be evaluated for extractables and leachables, FDA asserted.

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