Quality Systems

Felicity Thomas is Associate Editorial Director of Pharmaceutical Technology, Pharmaceutical Technology Europe, BioPharm International.

Articles

The EU FMD deadline is closing in, so now is the time to look beyond the short term.

Looking Beyond the Deadline

Hallie Forcinio is packing editor for Pharmaceutical Technology and Pharmaceutical Technology Europe, editorhal@sbcglobal.net.

Active and intelligent packaging technologies benefit brand owners, caregivers, and patients.

Smarter Packaging Comes to the Pharma Market

Adents' DispaX offers improved supply-chain traceability for pharmaceutical warehouses, wholesalers, distributors, and dispensers such as pharmacies and hospitals.

Mobile App for Supply-Chain Traceability

In preparation for the upcoming US Drug Supply Chain Security Act deadline, Metrics Contract Services has expanded serialization capabilities at its oral solid-dose commercial manufacturing site in Greenville, NC.

Metrics Adds Serialization Capabilities to North Carolina Site

Agnes Shanley is senior editor of Pharmaceutical Technology.

New FDA guidance offers a time buffer but increases supply-chain-management complexity, as active DSCSA enforcement begins.

FDA Provides More Clarity on DSCSA

Cost and IT practices may be holding back progress. 

After a Record Year for Counterfeiting, Efforts Intensify to Secure the Supply Chain

TruTag Technologies, a provider of product identity solutions, has added mobile-phone authentication of solid oral-dosage form tablets to its product offerings.

Tablet Authentication Now Enabled with a Mobile-Phone Camera

As counterfeiting, API manufacturing issues, and illegal diversion increase vulnerability, could dispensers and even patients play a greater role in securing the pharma supply chain?

Focusing on the Last Link

While more companies are embracing taggants, researchers are developing new technologies that will be extremely difficult to reproduce.

Anticounterfeiting: In Search of the Unhackable

JÃ¼rgen HÃ¶fling is product specialist in packaging technology and a technical writer based in Munich, Germany.

Labels must have special features to prevent tampering of pharmaceutical packaging.

Anticounterfeiting, Track and Trace Systems