How does the process for ensuring quality relate to the efforts drug manufacturers take in preventing adulteration or counterfeiting of medicines?
In many cases, the process is the same. Companies focus on building a trustworthy relationship between the drug component supplier and the manufacturer to help prevent intentional and accidental adulteration. Auditing a supplier can help to provide a company with assurance that the supplier will act in accordance to the supplier/manufacturer agreement that is in place. In addition, companies perform their due diligence as part of their supplier qualification process which will help identify those suppliers that maintain public health and safety as a key priority. Companies also have an arsenal of tools and activities that can help prevent economic adulteration or counterfeiting, such as testing methodologies, additional auditing techniques, and methods for determining authentication of supplier documentation and records.
