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An environmental, health and safety (EHS) management and audit program is now a prerequisite for organizations in various kinds of business. Allied to the…

Any business that opts for a supply chain management solution has to have clarity on how to choose a supply chain management solution. This is because the…

A look at the challenges before the supply chain management and logistics industry is instructive. Huge figures sit rather incongruously with the reality of the industry, which is that while from a universal point of view, the industry has been growing at a steady rate and is set…

Trends that will shape Supply Chain and Logistics in 2017 is an interesting topic to think about. Though most of the trends are a takeoff from the previous years, unless something really disrupting happens out of the blue at some point of time in the year; the signals…

Global supply chain regulatory compliance has become more important than ever before because of the confluence of a number of factors. As globalization becomes inevitable and inescapable, the global supply chain is one of the core arenas in which it plays out. The outgrowth brought about…

Trade compliance and logistics must work together for a number of important reasons. While on the surface, trade compliance for logistics may seem burdensome for many organizations, the benefits of getting their trade compliance and logistics to work together are…

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For many years before the advent of automation and computerization ,…

There is enormous potential for digital marketing for pharmaceutical companies. Proper exploitation of the social media can take pharmaceutical companies to their market in a more pinpointed and accurate manner than traditional marketing.

Gone are the initial days of reluctance on the part of pharmaceutical companies to…

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The beginnings of all that the USFDA regulates can be traced right to the early decades of the founding of the nation. In a sense, the FDA, even if came to be called by that formal name much later; embodies the discipline and value set that the new created nation sought to represent. Regulation of all aspects of American life was deeply ingrained…

Good Documentation Practices are the soul of many regulated industries. The FDA, like all other regulatory agencies, makes GDP a central element of its regulations, and bases it on the principle of evidence. For the FDA and other regulatory agencies across the world, what is not documented is nonexistent.

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Sponsors of clinical studies adapt many methods that are aimed at reducing the complexity of clinical trials. They also look for methods by which they can increase the efficacy of the results, while keeping the costs low. Risk-based monitoring is one of these methods.

How is risk-based monitoring understood?One can understand risk-based monitoring in several ways. This varied understanding is because there is no one definition or…

As the primary regulator of the biological, healthcare, life sciences and other related industries; the FDA has power and authority over how its work is carried out. FDA Warning Letters are among the primary mediums through which it enforces its authority.

The FDA issues a Warning Letter to a company when it determines, following…

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