2017 Program & Posters
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Description
A series of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) interventions and enforcement actions against pharmaceutical manufacturers in the past 5-6 years led to medicine shortages in the United States.
• The manufacturing shortfalls made essential medicines unavailable for the treatment of patients.
• Manufacturing shortfalls implied that quality management and manufacturing systems were not empowered or adequately staffed to support the critical functions of the pharmaceutical firms.
Publication Date
2017
City
National Harbor, MD
Keywords
Research Symposium
Disciplines
Business | Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Medicine and Health Sciences
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Business Administration, Management, and Operations Commons, Medicine and Health Sciences Commons