Manufacturing

Jill Wechsler is Pharmaceutical Technology's Washington Editor, jillwechsler7@gmail.com.

Articles

Efforts to establish an international system for identifying and tracing drugs through the global supply chain are moving forward.

Drug Supply Chain Tracking Challenges FDA and Manufacturers

Cryopak’s CryoCube reusable temperature-controlled shipping systems are available in several insulation categories, and a tailored solution can be modeled using thermal modeling software.


Prequalified Cold-Chain Shipping Systems Are Designed for Various Durations

Agnes Shanley is senior editor of Pharmaceutical Technology.

TraceLink’s Graham Clark, director of contract supplier relationships and cofounder, and Brian Daleiden, vice-president of industry marketing, shared insights into industry’s serialization readiness as well as recent trends and developments with Pharmaceutical Technology. 

Will Traceability Services Be Outsourced?

Advanced digital ledger technologies offer potential solutions, but are still several years away from practical use.

Could Blockchain Improve Pharmaceutical  Supply Chain Security?

The contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Aesica Pharmaceuticals has had a serialization program in place for the past five years, and recently installed capabilities for serialization at all its packaging facilities.

Serialization at Aesica: An Interview with Catherine Kay, Operations Director

The agency will lead an international team to create a Supply Chain Security Toolkit of resources to educate the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries on supply chain vulnerabilities.


FDA to Lead International Effort to Secure the Supply Chain

Intertek seeks to bring cost efficiencies to the pharmaceutical supply chain through confidential shared audits.



Intertek Launches Confidential Pharmaceutical Shared Audit Services in the UK

TruTags, the company’s silicon dioxide microtags, won Frost & Sullivan's 2017 North American Award for Technology Innovation.

TruTag Technologies Wins Technology Innovation Award for Taggants

The agency has pushed back by one year the deadline for compliance with DSCSA serialization requirements.


FDA Pushes DSCSA Serialization Enforcement Deadline to 2018

A survey from The Pistoia Alliance found that just under a quarter (22%) of life-science companies are already using or experimenting with blockchain, but industry collaboration on security and storage standards is needed. 