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Preventing fungal contamination in pharmaceuticals

European Pharmaceutical Review

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.” One case of drug contamination from 2021 was highlighted in the paper. Ahmed et al.

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Patents: a necessary evil?

European Pharmaceutical Review

Patents are often described as the ‘lifeblood’ of pharmaceutical companies. 1 However, patent protection for pharmaceutical products is an economic trade-off between providing monopoly rights that incentivise development of future products and permitting higher drug prices to recoup the investment.

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Pharmaceutical microbiology: key developments 2022

European Pharmaceutical Review

This also occupies a large resource, given the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirement for double plate checking using a second ‘independent’ person. Tony Cundell: Perhaps the second greatest challenge is the ongoing transition from products based on small molecules to large molecules to cellular therapies.