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USP’s commitment to ESG considerations for a healthier, more sustainable world

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Agency for International Development (USAID) and others, we strengthened 22 national medicines regulatory authorities, supported 23 national control and diagnostic laboratories to meet global standards, and advanced quality production with 36 manufacturers for 50 medical products. These USP documentary standards are recognized in U.S.

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Omnibus Spending Law: Provisions Will Bolster Medicines Supply Chain Insights and Advanced Manufacturing Technologies

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Leveraging insights from data on USP standards distribution and usage at more than 22,000 locations worldwide and 40+ external data sets, USP launched the Medicine Supply Map in 2021 to provide an early-warning capability for supply chain vulnerabilities.

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

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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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Pharmaceutical Continuous Manufacturing: Regulatory landscape in the spotlight at USP workshop

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For example, while some stakeholders may perceive PCM to be primarily for innovators and not for makers of generic medicines or biotech companies, it “can be for generic companies, biotechnology companies, and so on, and we have had engagements with generic drug companies in our emerging technologies program already,” Fisher said.

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Manufacturing solutions are essential to strengthen the global medicines supply chain

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government’s fiscal 2023 funding bill , signed into law in December 2022, included a range of specific provisions to support medicines supply chain resilience, including those supporting development of AMT through creation of national centers of excellence. The non-profit maker of essential generic medicines was established by a group of U.S.

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What a mild recession could mean for small biotechs in 2023

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To build an advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing cluster in the Richmond-Petersburg area, the Alliance for Building Better Medicine aims to support the early growth of local pharmaceutical manufacturers. The US Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded the organization $52.9