Standards play an important role in the global medicines supply chain, helping governments and manufacturers increase the availability of safe, quality medicines, as well as building patient and health provider trust. In fact, quality standards are a big reason why we in the U.S. can get a prescription filled at our neighborhood pharmacy and trust that the medicine we receive will be safe and work as it should.
Poor-quality medical products are all too common in Africa, where substandard and falsified medicines kill nearly 500,000 people each year, according to the United Nations. The continent also has the highest prevalence of poor-quality medicines among low- and middle-income countries at 18.7 percent.
In Nigeria, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), the national regulating authority for medical products, is prioritizing local production of medicines to ensure a safer supply of quality-assured medical products to protect patients and communities across the country and continent.
It’s been nearly 20 years since the US Pharmacopeia (USP) established our laboratories in Hyderabad and we began growing our team of scientists and other professionals in India. In the time since, the global pharmaceutical landscape has undergone a tremendous amount of evolution.
USP’s supplier qualification standard became official on Aug.
Revised on: January 17, 2023
Proper storage and transportation of finished drug products is critical to activities in an integrated supply chain.
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