Online Webinar 2019 - Strategies to Prevent Manufacture and Distribution of Substandard Medications

Session Highlights
The problem
Poisons
Temperature excursions
Risks to patients
Risks to companies
Solutions
Maintain a robust quality system
Supplier quality
Product testing
Monitoring temperature
Join industry and governmental efforts to improve product quality worldwide
Current initiatives
Benefits to Pharma companies
Explore new technologies to bolster product integrity
Blockchain
Portable testing devices
Make a hardheaded assessment of risk and reward when assessing cost reduction initiatives
Identify most vulnerable areas
Cost-benefit considerations
Review of learning objectives
Who Will Benefit
Pharmaceutical Industry
Supply Chain
Quality Assurance
Packaging and Labeling
Manufacturing
Warehousing and Distribution
Overview
Substandard product can exist even if the product itself is manufactured according to quality standards. Muhammad H. Zaman, in his book Bitter Pills, recalls his visit to a warehouse in Ghana that had no climate control, with temperatures in the warehouse reaching 95 degrees Fahrenheit.
Why should you Attend
If a legitimate product is not manufactured according to quality standards or becomes degraded as it travels through its supply chain, it can be ineffective at best or deadly at worst.
Examples of potential dangers that can occur include temperature excursions, inappropriate use, and unsafe ingredients inadvertently added to the product.
Speaker
Michael Esposito has over 30 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry and 17 years experience in GMP training and document management. He has worked for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division in a variety of areas including Packaging, project administration, Quality Assurance, Government Contracts, translations, systems training, and international operations. He collaborated in the development and implementation of the training portion of the Consent Decree workplan for McNeil and revised their introductory GMP course. He is a member of the training organizations GMP Training Educators Association and Association for GXP Excellence (AGXPE) and is fully fluent in Spanish. His areas of interest include systems training, training effectiveness, post-training user support, process improvement, and sustainable packaging.