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FDA Expands Alert About Lack of Sterility Assurance of NuVision Pharmacys Sterile Drug Products

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting healthcare providers of concerns about a lack of sterility assurance of all sterile drug products made and distributed by NuVision Pharmacy of Dallas. The FDA recommends that these products should not be administered to ...More

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FDA Releases New Tool to Help Prevent Intentional Food Contamination

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a new tool to help bolster the food industry’s defense measures against an act of intentional food contamination. The Food Defense Plan Builder is a comprehensive, easy-to-use software program designed to help owners and ...More

1 week ago

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FDA Alert on Lack of Sterility Assurance of Drug Products From The Compounding Shop

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting healthcare providers, hospital supply managers, and pharmacists that the FDA’s preliminary findings of practices at The Compounding Shop of St. Petersburg, Fla., raise concerns about a lack of sterility assurance for ...More

2 weeks ago

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Draft Bill to Make Clear Oversight Responsibilities for Pharmaceutical Compounding

Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), with Senators Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and other members of the HELP Committee, on Friday, ...More

4 weeks ago

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FDA Warns That Damaged, Worn Covers for Medical Bed Mattresses Pose Risk

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting healthcare providers that damaged or worn covers for medical bed mattresses can allow blood and body fluids to penetrate medical bed mattresses, posing a risk of infection to patients. A medical bed mattress cover provides ...More

4 weeks ago

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FDA Partnership to Protect Against Counterfeit Anti-Malarial Medicines

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces a public-private partnership to help identify counterfeit or substandard anti-malarial medicines, including falsified products, with the deployment of the FDA-developed Counterfeit Detection Device, called CD-3. Malaria kills ...More

4 weeks ago

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Recall by Balanced Solutions Compounding Pharmacy Due to Lack of Sterility Assurance

Balanced Solutions Compounding Pharmacy, a division of Axium Healthcare Pharmacy, Inc., of Lake Mary, Fla., is voluntarily recalling all lots of its sterile non-expired drug products due to a lack of sterility assurance and concerns with product quality controls. Healthcare ...More

5 weeks ago

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Infections From Some Foodborne Pathogens Increased While Others Remained Unchanged in 2012

The nation’s annual food safety report card is out and it shows that 2012 rates of infections from two germs spread commonly through food have increased significantly when compared to a baseline period of 2006-2008, while rates of most others have not changed during the ...More

April 18, 2013

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New Whitepaper Details What Compounding Pharmacies Must Know to Prepare for FDA Inspections

In anticipation of new Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, many companies are working toward correcting potential problems and attaining USP <797> compliance. A new whitepaper addresses the issues that compounding pharmacies must address prior to ...More

April 16, 2013

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Lack of Sterility Assurance of Drug Products from ApotheCure Inc. and NuVision Pharmacy

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting healthcare providers, hospital supply managers and pharmacists that sterile drug products made by ApotheCure, Inc. and sterile lyophilized (freeze dried powder) drug products made by NuVision Pharmacy were produced under ...More

April 16, 2013

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