The issue of addressing potential nitrosamine impurities in medicines has been the focus at events taking place around the globe in recent months and will continue to do so throughout 2023.

The quality of excipients in medicines – which make up every part of a drug other than the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) – is critical to a resilient medicines supply chain, panelists agreed at an April 25 session of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (

Continued global cooperation to strengthen supply chain resilience and assure medicines quality was a recurring theme at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum’s

Interest in innovative vaccines that use messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) and viral vectored technologies was among the key draws at this year’s World Vaccine Congress (WVC) on April 3-6 in Washington, D.C.