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Preventing fungal contamination in pharmaceuticals

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Additionally, this can be caused by “poor handling, repackaging, and nonadherence to good manufacturing practices [GMP] during dispensing and packaging have resulted in the microbiological contamination of non-sterile pharmaceutical products.” Ahmed et al. One case of drug contamination from 2021 was highlighted in the paper.

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Global comparator data signal “alarm bells” for UK Government, says APBI

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The paper, by a team from Imperial College London, concluded that the FDA gave the go ahead to 95% of the 89 products approved between 2010 and 2019 before EMA, with the Europeans trailing the Americans by a median of 241 days. in the same period.