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August 2009 Volume 5 Issue 8

Welcome to the August 2009 issue of Pharmaceutical Technology Sourcing and Management, your information resource about the pharmaceutical supply chain. In this issue, we provide an update on Rx-360, a new industry consortium addressing supply-chain security in the pharmaceutical industry. Plus, best practices on how to manage the supply chain for clinical trial materials.

Supply Chain
Pharma Industry Consortium Rx-360 Tackles Supply-Chain Security
Angie Drakulich, Pharmaceutical Technology
A new industry consortium of pharmaceutical manufacturers and their suppliers addresses supply-chain integrity, including approaches in shared supplier audits.

Contract Manufacturing for Clinical Trial Materials
Managing the Clinical-Trial-Materials Supply Chain
Patricia Van Arnum, Pharmaceutical Technology
Collaborative planning and execution among clinical research, clinical operations, and supply-chain managers are key elements in effectively managing an increasingly complex and global supply chain for clinical trial materials.

Outsourcing
East Meets West in Contract Biologics Manufacturing
Patricia Van Arnum, Pharmaceutical Technology
A joint biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility in India by Kemwell and Boehringer Ingelheim ushers in a new era.

Sourcing and Management’s Community of Experts

The panel consists of leading professionals involved in the synthesis, manufacture, and sourcing of active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates, and experts in formulation and dosage-form manufacturing. The community of experts lends its expertise to the eNewsletter by providing reviews of technical articles as well as offering perspectives on topics of relevance to pharmaceutical manufacturers and their suppliers.

2009 AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition

The 2009 AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition Online Preliminary Program in now available!
Scientists around the world anticipate the AAPS Annual Meeting as the event that showcases late-breaking research, validates scientific methodology, and reveals the latest technology, services, and supplies for their research needs. Speakers include scientists from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, National Institute of Health, leading pharmaceutical companies, and academia. Expert speakers will address topics such as:

∙ excipients
∙ global regulatory changes
∙ model based drug development
∙ drug product safety
∙ stability
∙ unstable metabolites
∙ nanotechnology, and more...

The scientific program will include concentrated short courses, symposia, roundtables, sunrise sessions and over 2,000 contributed papers covering the very latest research in the pharmaceutical sciences.

Go to

www.aapspharmaceutica.com/annualmeeting now and explore the online preliminary program. See you in Los Angeles!

Industry Events
For the full listing of calendar events, see the Calendar of Events page

Featured Events
August 2009
Aug 11–12
PharmTech Annual Conference
Philadelphia

Aug 19–21
IVT presents the 8th Annual Laboratory Compliance Conference
Philadelphia

Aug 24–27
The Bioprocessing Summit
Cambridge, MA

September 2009
Sept 22–25
USP Annual Scientific Meeting 2009
Toronto

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