Vulnerabilities or disruptions to the global medicine supply chain (including drug shortages) continue to make headlines.
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.
Drug shortages pose a significant, ongoing threat to our healthcare system and to the patients who rely on medicine for their wellbeing and survival.
In April, the World Health Organization (WHO) became the latest health authority to release a draft guidance on Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) considerations for the prevention and management of nitrosamine contamination in pharmaceutical products.
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.
India is often referred to as the ‘pharmacy of the world’ and is undeniably the leading manufacturing hub for many of the world’s most essential medicines.
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