Rx-360 Consortium Aims to Curb Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Threats

Rx-360 Consortium answers the call to develop a global solution to the pharmaceutical supply chain crisis exemplified by last year's heparin adulteration. The consortium, which brings a holistic perspective and a bias for action, will meet June 5 in Washington to chart its course. Its three-year plan calls for adopting and when necessary setting standards, identifying and sharing potential adulteration threats such as the current shortage of acetonitrile, sharing information from audits of suppliers and developing new technologies with the help of research universities. The group envisions a flexible audit-sharing system that could include second- and third-party audits that might be built on an IT platform originally developed to share audits of working conditions.