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Fosun Pharma and IFC to build new drug manufacturing plant in Africa

Pharmaceutical Technology

Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) is to collaborate with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to construct a new pharmaceutical production facility and distribution hub near Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The IFC will provide two loans totalling $53.49m (€50m) to Fosun Pharma’s subsidiaries.

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Securing every dose with an edible security technology for safe medicines

European Pharmaceutical Review

1 Simply, pharmaceutical products are the most vulnerable to counterfeiting. 2 The global counterfeit pharmaceuticals trade is estimated to be worth billions annually, 3 bolstered significantly by the increased illicit online pharmacies that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. This allows for a cyber?physical All protein?based

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RFID: The future of smart labelling?

Pharmaceutical Technology

The pharmaceutical industry began using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in the early 2000s. Pfizer was the first to use the tech, adding RFID tags to track a Viagra (sildenafil) shipment circa 2006. The aim was to streamline workflows in healthcare facilities by reducing error-prone manual data entry for every customer.