A Day of Reckoning for Aging Facilities: Is It Time to Invest in Change?
With its acquisition of Hospira, Pfizer joins the ranks of pharmaceutical companies struggling to eke out a profit from aging sterile injectables facilities without shutting them down for badly needed upgrades for fear of triggering additional drug shortages. Meanwhile, flexible, modular next-generation facilities that could add capacity where needed are on the horizon.
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With the deadline for comments on the US FDA’s draft guidance less than a month away, the Pink Sheet offers an infographic outlining what the agency is expecting in diversity action plans and when that might be implemented.
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