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PCAB improves recognition of pharmacy compounding accreditation by implementing unannounced survey policy. Cary, North Carolina (PRWEB) May 21, 2013 The Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board (PCAB®) today announced the approval of its unannounced survey policy for renewal and interim surveys. In a move to improve the accreditation process and garner greater recognition and acceptance of accreditation as a standard for compounding pharmacies, PCAB® rolled out its plans to...
BOOTHWYN, Pa., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pentec Health, Inc. has decided to initiate a limited, voluntary recall of in-date nutritional prescriptions for renal patients due to lack of sterility assurance associated with one of its laminar flow hoods used in compounding. The recall covers renal therapies that were compounded in this hood on or before May 2, 2013. These therapies were supplied to renal dialysis centers and directly to patients. Pentec Health is...
Ms. Barchuk and her husband provide quality janitorial services to pharmaceutical companies WINTER GARDEN, Fla., May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Shelia Barchuk, Owner of Custom Care Janitorial Services, was recently named a VIP member of Worldwide Who's Who. This special distinction honors individuals who have shown exceptional commitment to achieving personal and professional success. Custom Care is a commercial janitorial company that specializes in cleaning the facilities of...
Charles Leiter, President and CEO of Leiter’s Compounding Pharmacy, outlines Quality Assurance and standards for compounding pharmacies. San Jose, CA (PRWEB) May 08, 2013 Charles Leiter, the President and CEO of Leiter’s Compounding Pharmacy, was a featured speaker at the annual ASCRS Symposium and Congress in San Francisco, CA on April 22, 2013. The symposium is an annual conference and seminar for top Cataract and Refractive surgeons from across the country. Leiter was asked to...
BOCA RATON, Fla., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TriMix Laboratories, LLC and KRS Global Biotechnology, INC today announced the availability of TriMix-gel® in a 2000 microgram dose. The joint developmental effort is the result of physicians and patients asking if it was possible for TriMix-gel to come in an increased dosage. After development and testing, the new dosage is available immediately from KRS Global Biotechnology on the prescription of a licensed physician. TriMix-gel...
BETHLEHEM, Pa., May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Supporting consistent federal oversight of sterile compounding in the United States, Central Admixture Pharmacy Services, Inc. (CAPS(®)), a B. Braun company, submitted its comments today to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) regarding the committee's draft legislation on sterile compounding. "We strongly believe that consistency will be the key," said Mike Koch, CAPS Vice President, Marketing...
BOZEN, Sud-Tirol, Italy, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Robotics today announced the appointment of Gordon Meyer to its Board of Directors. Mr. Meyer has more than 30 years' experience in the health care industry with Sandoz Canada (Novartis), C.R. Bard, Sabex, and Baxter Canada, amongst others. During the last sixteen years at Sabex and Sandoz-Novartis he led a team that is the Canadian leader in hospital small volume parenteral injectables. Mr. Meyer stated: "In...
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PharMEDium is encouraged by the progress made today by the twelve bipartisan Members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee toward assuring the highest level of safety possible for patients who receive sterile compounded preparations. The Senate HELP Committee has produced a detailed and thoughtful Bill which goes a long way toward addressing the complicated but crucial question of how to improve regulatory...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Nearly seven months after reports of the first deaths from a dangerous meningitis outbreak made headlines, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may now get greater control on pharmacies that compound sterile drugs. A legislative proposal was outlined on Friday in response to the outbreak that has so far killed 53 people and sickened hundreds more. The outbreak was linked to a contaminated steroidal injection produced and...
BOCA RATON, Fla., April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TriMix Laboratories LLC today announced an agreement with KRS Global Biotechnology, INC to fill prescriptions for TriMix-gel®. KRS is a licensed compounding pharmacy capable of making TriMix-gel for individual patients in response to a prescription from a licensed physician. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130424/PH00475LOGO) John Swartz, Vice President of Business Development, said, "TriMix-gel will fit perfectly with...
