APEC Medical Product Supply Chain Dialogue 2023 | Quality Matters

APEC forum’s Medical Product Supply Chain Dialogue

// June 14, 2023

Good distribution practices require coordination, collaboration, and continuous quali...

When it comes to good distribution practices (GDPs) for medical products, patient safety is the highest priority, panelists affirmed during an April 26 session of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum’s

Luciana Shimizu Takara

Supply Chain

// June 21, 2023

Protecting patients from substandard and falsified medicines through post-marketing s...

Substandard and falsified (SF) medical products remain one of the most significant public health concerns at national, regional, and global levels, and post-marketing surveillance is an essential part of the solution, panelists agreed during an April 26 session of the

Souly Phanouvong

Supply Chain

// June 21, 2023

Experiences strengthening quality assurance in the APEC region...

Quality assurance is a wide-ranging concept encompassing all factors that collectively influence the quality attributes of medical products.

Jude Nwokike

Supply Chain

// June 14, 2023

Good distribution practices require coordination, collaboration, and continuous quali...

Luciana Shimizu Takara

Supply Chain

// June 13, 2023

Implementing regulatory reforms and investing in supply chain integrity for pandemic ...

While the U.S. and World Health Organization (WHO) have declared an end to the public health emergency, opportunities remain for regulatory reforms to bolster supplies of quality medicines and prepare for the next pandemic.

Anthony Lakavage, J.D.

Supply Chain

// June 06, 2023

Thinking differently about excipient quality to ensure medicines supply chain resilie...

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 (

John Giannone

Supply Chain

// May 25, 2023

Impurities in the medicines supply chain: Global cooperation essential to safeguardin...

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

Edwin Gump, PhD

Supply Chain

// May 23, 2023

Internet Pharmacies are an Often-Overlooked Part of the Medicines Supply Chain ...

Many patients and consumers have a mental picture of the last leg of the pharmaceutical supply chain as a neighborhood drug store where they pick up their prescriptions. The advent of the Internet age, however, renders that picture incomplete at best.

Carrie Harney

Supply Chain

// May 22, 2023

Identifying upstream supply chain vulnerabilities can help mitigate or prevent drug s...

After Laura Bray’s daughter was diagnosed with cancer and began chemotherapy treatment, she faced three separate shortages of the life-saving drugs she needed, all within nine months.

Vimala Raghavendran

Supply Chain

// May 18, 2023

Manufacturing solutions are essential to strengthen the global medicines supply chain...

Innovation and standardization across borders are essential to facilitate manufacturing solutions that can strengthen the global medicines supply chain, panelists suggested during an April 25 session of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC

Dennis Hall

Supply Chain

// April 26, 2023

Essential elements of a strong, global medicines supply chain...

The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) has long been recognized as an international leader in medicines quality and supply chain integrity.

Ron Piervincenzi, Ph.D.