Entities & Trading Partners Defined Under The DSCSA “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) is issuing this guidance to assist industry and State and local governments in understanding how to categorize the entities in the drug supply chain in accordance with the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA). DSCSA establishes product tracing […]
Category: DSCSA
GS1 US Workshop Series Offers Pharmaceutical Industry Professionals DSCSA Implementation Assistance | Healthcare Packaging
“Specifically, how to mark pharmaceutical products with a National Drug Code (NDC), serial number, lot number, and expiration date in both machine-readable and human-readable format will be covered, as will the use of GS1 identifiers, application identifiers, and data carriers.” Read the full article (Source): GS1 US Workshop Series Offers Pharmaceutical Industry Professionals DSCSA Implementation […]
How drugs intended for patients ended up in the hands of illegal users: ‘No one was doing their job’ – The Washington Post
“For 10 years, the government waged a behind-the-scenes war against pharmaceutical companies that hardly anyone knows: wholesale distributors of prescription narcotics that ship drugs from manufacturers to consumers.” Read the full article: Source: How drugs intended for patients ended up in the hands of illegal users: ‘No one was doing their job’ – The Washington […]
FDA Releases First Wholesaler and 3PL Facility Licensure Data to the Public | The National Law Review
“Users either can query the database when searching for a particular company here or download the entire data set as an Excel file from this page. Although technically the law only requires a public wholesale distributor database, FDA determined that making the 3PL information public as well served the law’s goals, and it stated in a December […]
NEW: 2015-16 Economic Report on Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Specialty Distributors – Drug Channels
“This year’s report—our sixth edition—has been updated, revised, reorganized, and expanded. It contains the latest industry and financial data, along with detailed information about the strategies and market positions of the largest public companies: AmerisourceBergen, McKesson, and Cardinal Health. It also includes many new elements.” Read the full article: Source: Drug Channels: NEW: 2015-16 Economic […]
Do Not Let Your Firm be the Headline for a Supply Chain Systems Failure | Supply Chain Matters
California Designated Representative Training Courses (wholesaler, 3PL, reverse distributor) – Approved by the California State Board of Pharmacy “Many years ago, I worked for a very insightful CIO who mastered communications to senior executive management. Often, when he received pressure regarding systems maintenance budgets associated with mission critical business systems such as order fulfillment, he […]