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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. World Health Organization; 2006.

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2022 spells change for EU pharmaceutical legislation

European Pharmaceutical Review

Stakeholders in the EU often use the risk-adjusted Net Present Value (rNPV) investment model to determine whether to invest in a pharmaceutical product. THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION; 2006. THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION; 2006.

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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. As computing has developed in the past decade, so has the potential to store and use information in the cloud.

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WHO cough mixture health alerts raises questions about slack compliance in manufacturing

Pharmaceutical Technology

Quantifying ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol in Glycerin In January this year, the WHO responded by releasing an urgent call for its almost 200-member states to act to prevent, detect and respond to incidents of substandard and falsified medical products. If you have a requirement for excipient testing, please get in touch.