Archives for September 30, 2014

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Pre CPhI Special

How green was my Valium? Not very, despite industry claims

By Gareth Macdonald

Making active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) is a dirty business and you’d have to be pretty green to believe claims drug industry 'demand' will create a $100bn market for environmentally-friendly production methods by 2020.

Indian firm, 26 others cited for failing to pay GDUFA fees

By Zachary Brennan

Indian generic manufacturer Marck Biosciences has received a warning letter from the US FDA for failing to pay its annual facility fees for the past two years, which for foreign fixed-dose formulation facilities in 2014 was $235,152.