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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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What is a Compounding Pharmacy?

BuzzRx

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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Reducing Drug Spend with IV Robotic Services

Omnicell

Sterile compounding is also one of the costliest functions in pharmacy operations. Still, many hospital pharmacies continue to struggle to improve safety and efficiency in their sterile compounding operations. Insourcing IV compounding services at Moses H. 5 at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. 5 at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m.

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Advocates for Safe IV Preparation Practices Share Their Inspiration Podcast

Omnicell

Mark Neuenschwander Founding Director, THRIVCoalition.org Seminal research from 1997 on IV compounding discovered that 9 percent of manually compounded sterile preparations had incorrect ingredients and/or volumes. Worst yet, 74% of all respondents were aware of at least one pharmacy compounding error in the last 12 months.