It’s too bad this wasn’t around in 2008, when Americans were dying after getting tainted heparin from China: a guide that helps drug makers and their suppliers identify risk in the supply chain.
http://www.securingpharma.com/40/articles/395.php
The Pharmaceutical Quality Group (PQG) has put together the guide, which says that globalization and cost-consciousness has made the pharmaceutical supply chain very complex. And that can “reduce both the knowledge and understanding of the exposure to risk.”
The story on the guide notes that it is being published “in the wake of serious incidents in which the integrity of the pharmaceutical supply chain has been compromised to allow substandard and adulterated ingredients to find their way into medicines.”
The example cited: the contamination of the blood thinner heparin made in China in 2007 and 2008, which lead to the deaths of more than 200 people around the world.
The “how-to” guide goes into detail about techniques for managing supply chain risk, and illustrates how these can be applied in the pharma industry, including in instances like the heparin incident.
Attorney Gordon Johnson
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