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Indian pharma manufacturing: rising investment in Andhra Pradesh

Pharmaceutical Technology

Indian pharma manufacturing continues to be the backbone of drug supplies worldwide, and GlobalData analysis suggests US overreliance on the country for generic drug supply. US reliance on India for generic drugs could have supply chain security and quality implications for critical medicines. ©GlobalData.

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Hitting Pause on Criticism of the FDA, Just for Today

Pharmacy Checkers

The FDA’s capacity to evaluate new and generic drug applications and its oversight over drug manufacturing are why we have this degree of assurance. There are 19,000 approved prescription drugs for marketing in the U.S. Of course, the faster a safe and effective medicine can come to market, the better.

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Pharma’s climate change vulnerability and opportunity

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Water-borne illnesses are also likely to become more common, as increased rain and storm surges contribute to flooding and contaminated run off. To meet the growing demand and market opportunity, a pharma company must ensure it has the resources, capacity, and supply chain to grow.”. Vulnerability .

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Through the Looking Glass: Is FDA really the “Gold Standard” in Drug Safety?

Pharmacy Checkers

The GAO’s preliminary analysis on inspections brings back into light what Katherine Eban so passionately – and dramatically – exposed in her book Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom.” Is the EU now the gold standard for combatting drug quality problems and fake meds? Why do I write “exact same”?

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Health Canada’s proposed amendments to the Food and Drug Regulations and the Medical Devices Regulations

Pharma in Brief

On July 31, 2021, Health Canada published a Notice of Intent outlining its plan to amend the Food and Drug Regulations ( FDR ) and the Medical Devices Regulations in the spring of 2022. Generic drugs and biosimilars are not eligible for this application pathway. Biologic Drugs. Manufacturing Controls.

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PFIZER REPORTS STRONG FIRST-QUARTER 2021 RESULTS

The Pharma Data

Following the completion of the spin-off of the Upjohn Business (4) in the fourth quarter of 2020, Pfizer now operates as a focused innovative biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development, manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution of biopharmaceutical products worldwide. in December 2019; and. in December 2019; and.

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Trump’s Pakistani Imported Chloroquine Phosphate: FDA Inspections vs. EU Testing to Ensure Drug Safety

Pharmacy Checkers

The FDA has recently suspended its overseas inspections of drug establishments that manufacture products for the U.S. Albeit there are some new hellish supply chain issues due to the coronavirus, drug importation from those plants is still happening. market since we are not doing inspections now. We need to do more of it now.

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