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Preventing fungal contamination in pharmaceuticals

European Pharmaceutical Review

In a review on fungal-contaminated compounded pharmaceuticals and medical devices, researchers have described how the contamination of these products can be due to breaches in sterile compounding procedures. Ahmed et al. One case of drug contamination from 2021 was highlighted in the paper.

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Extemporaneous Preparation with Unknown Stability

RX Note

Today, stability information can be obtained from manufacturer’s labelling information (such as in the package insert), the USP compounding monographs, or peer-reviewed articles and references , such as articles in American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, the International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding.