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Essential elements of a strong, global medicines supply chain

Quality Matters

Quality standards and related tools – supported by appropriate regulatory capability and enforcement – can help promote quality across the pharmaceutical product lifecycle, from the sourcing of active and inactive ingredients to packaging, labeling, distribution, and point-of-care administration.

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Standards support medicines supply chain resilience and the future of quality

Quality Matters

Quality across the product lifecycle The role of standards goes far beyond the drug manufacturing process – from the sourcing of raw materials to packaging, labeling, distribution, and point-of-care administration – to help ensure quality across the pharmaceutical product lifecycle.

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World Standards Day: Recognizing How Standards Enable a Strong Medicines Supply Chain

Quality Matters

With this extensive system in place, patients can trust that medicines with the same name will be consistent in quality no matter who manufactures it or where in the world it is made. Since manufacturers know the precise quality specifications, standards help make the approval process for generic medicines more efficient.

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Halting Europe’s essential medicines manufacturing exodus

European Pharmaceutical Review

There is now a large regional concentration in the production of generic APIs in Asia with 66 percent of the world’s API production by volume manufactured in India and China. This is likely to make some essential medicines and APIs economically unsustainable to manufacture.