Archive for the ‘Regulatory’ Category

SAFC’s Dave Backer Discusses the Full Line of SAFC PharmaGrade Products and Highlights the PharmaGrade MSX Product Capabilities

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

As SAFC continues to settle into 2012, there is plenty of planning and development going on across the global SAFC network. Leading into the first big tradeshow of the year, Informex 2012 in New Orleans, LA, SAFC has been focused on introducing a new line of products that take quality and security of supply chain to another level. Below, Dave Backer, SAFC Director of Business Development and Marketing, discusses what the PharmaGrade product portfolio, means for SAFC customers and why it is relevant to the market.

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BREAKING NEWS: BioReliance to Become Part of SAFC

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

 

Today, Sigma Aldrich confirmed that the newly acquired BioReliance business will become part of SAFC, the custom manufacturing and services business unit of Sigma-Aldrich. SAFC President, Gilles Cottier noted that the acquisition would serve to increase the SAFC value proposition and positively leverage the company’s industrial media presence and biological testing capabilities for end user services and solutions.

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SAFC Featured in the Informex 2012 Blog

Friday, January 27th, 2012

SAFC Marketing Manager, Nick Johnson, talks about what SAFC is bringing to the “Big Easy” in 2012 and why Informex is a key annual event for SAFC. Please click here to read the full blog.

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SAFC Gets Ready to Take on the “Big Easy” at Informex 2012!

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

SAFC wasted no time moving forward in 2012! As we ramp up for our first big show of the year, Informex 2012, we wanted to take some time to run through what we will have to offer leading up to and throughout the upcoming event in New Orleans, LA.

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An In-Depth Interview with SafeBridge President and CEO, John Farris

Friday, November 4th, 2011

SAFC’s Verona plant has just been awarded SafeBridge Certification. But what does this mean, and what does the process involve? SafeBridge President and Chief Executive, John Farris, tells all in the following interview with SAFC Live.

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LIVE from CPhI Worldwide: SAFC Announces Safebridge Certification for the Verona, WI Facility

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

Manufacturing Chemist offers a view from the world’s largest pharmaceutical exhibition as SAFC announces Safebridge Certification for the Verona, Wisconsin facility that specializes in High Potency API manufacture (HPAPI).

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Tom Beil Offers a Look into the Recent Rx-360 Presentation about the Benefits of Shared Audits for the Pharmaceutical Industry

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

In 2009, the International Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Consortium, Rx-360, was developed by volunteers from the Pharmaceutical and Biotech industry, including suppliers. The purpose of Rx-360 is to enhance the security of the pharmaceutical supply chain and to assure the quality and authenticity of the products moving through the supply chain. The consortium is a non-profit organization with a mission to create and monitor a global quality system that meets the expectations of industry and regulators to assure patient safety through the guarantee of product quality and authenticity throughout the supply chain.

As Vice President of Quality and Regulatory Affairs here at Sigma Aldrich, and as a board member of Rx-360, I have been very involved in setting up the guidelines for inspections and it has been gratifying to see that it is not just the industry that is taking note of what we have been doing – those in Government are, too.

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