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Vanguard News TAXES: Call NAFDAC to order, Lagos PSN urges FG On By Gabriel Olawale Lagos branch of the pharmaceutical society of Nigeria, PSN, weekend raised the alarm over what it described as  “unending taxes and tariffs on players in the value chain of the pharmaceutical sector,”  by the National  Agency for Food and Drug Administration & Control, NAFDAC,  calling on the Federal Government and other stakeholders to stop the agency from turning pharmacy practice to a major source of Internally Generated Revenue. In a statement entitled:  Pharmacy not for sale”, signed by  Chai...

Views: Visits 5 By Gabriel Olawale Lagos branch of the pharmaceutical society of Nigeria, PSN, weekend raised the alarm over what it described as  “unending taxes and tariffs on players in the value chain of the pharmaceutical sector,”  by the National  Agency for Food and Drug Administration & Control, NAFDAC,  calling on the Federal Government and other stakeholders to stop the agency from turning pharmacy practice to a major source of Internally Generated Revenue. In a statement entitled:  Pharmacy not for sale”, signed by  Chairman, Lagos state  PSN, Gbolagade Iy...

In its next cycle, the Packaging, Storage, and Distribution Expert Committee of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) will be addressing some of the challenges the pharmaceutical industry is facing in terms of supply-chain management, testing for extractables and leachables, and testing of glass, plastic, and metal container closure systems. The 2010–2015 committee will be led by chair Mary Foster, Pharm.D., vice president of quality for Catalent Pharma Solutions. “There are no written standards yet by FDA or USP in areas such as anti-counterfeiting, technologies for track and trace, suppl...