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A tip from the FDA: don’t use the same equipment to make drugs and pesticides

  • Ed Silverman

By Ed Silverman May 18, 2018

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Generally speaking, pharmaceuticals and pesticides don’t mix.

But one contract manufacturer, unfortunately, needed a reminder.

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Ed Silverman

Ed Silverman

Pharmalot Columnist, Senior Writer

Ed Silverman covers the pharmaceutical industry.

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  • Ah, and then there are things Product Quest said – actually quite truthfully, I am sure. [Web link upon request]
    “Stated simply, we formulate the goop, we buy all the raw materials to mix the goop, we mix the goop, and we fill the goop into whatever …”

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