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.
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
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.
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.
The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) has long been recognized as an international leader in medicines quality and supply chain integrity.
It is not uncommon for people to sometimes take important things for granted, such as the quality of the medicines they rely on for their health. While not usually top-of-mind, standards and other quality-focused solutions developed by the U.S.
In the U.S. and around the world, quality standards developed by the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) support the availability of safe, quality medicines, regulatory efficiencies, and a strong global medicine supply chain.
When shock events impact the medicines supply chain, underlying vulnerabilities can cause it to break instead of bend, resulting in drug shortages. Such shocks can include an increase in demand due to emerging public health concerns.
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