The Korean project, which began in April 2014, required the Sweden-based CDMO (contract development and manufacturing organization) Recipharm to produce a data matrix code, including serial number, to comply with the regulations that are expected to be...
Pharmaceutical companies are rushing to respond to shortened deadlines from China’s Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) for serialising drug packaging.
The International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council (IPEC) Americas has welcomed new SFDA excipient quality and supervision regulations, which it says are largely consistent with its own guidelines.
Chinese companies exporting drugs in bulk will come under the microscope next month when the Indian government sends a team of officials to inspect manufacturing plants.
German technology giant Schott has signed an agreement with a Chinese firm to provide the fast-growing pharmaceutical market with a range of high-end glass packaging products.
A new, tougher approvals policy for pharmaceutical products in China will bring opportunities for Western contract companies able to help domestic firms meet the strict new rules, according to a seminar at InterPhex in New York.
The Chinese government is supporting a $100m (€73m) project to build a contract biologics production facility in Beijing, which, by some measures, would be the largest in Asia.
US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has teamed up with China’s Fudan University to set up a Master’s degree programme in clinical data management and statistical programming.
US drugmaker Unigene has begun construction of new facilities in
China as part of its joint venture with a state-owned Chinese
pharmaceutical company to establish research, development and
manufacturing capacities in the nation.
A new contract research organization (CRO) has opened in Hong Kong
and will be the only clinical trial site outside of China with the
approval of China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) to
run oncology trials.
German packaging firm Gerresheimer has ventured further into China,
buying a majority interest in Chinese pharmaceutical packager
Shuangfeng Group and gaining entry into the Chinese market for
tubular glass packaging for the first...
