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Running on Ice: When unlikely products combine

24 February 2023

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Image: Preferred Packaging news release

Preferred Packaging has partnered with Northwest Frozen to launch a line of extended shelf-life prepared meals. To me, the item that seems the most exciting is a frozen croissant-shaped gnocchi...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/running-on-ice-when-unlikely-products-combine

FDA took exceptional steps to prevent drug shortages last year

2 July 2021

This is an excerpt from Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. Subscribe here.

The news: The Food and Drug Administration used tools like regulatory flexibility and expedited applications to avoid nearly 200 drug shortages in 2020, according to a new report.

The agency hasn’t prevented that many shortages since 2012, when the problem was more severe.

In the midst of a pandemic that dramatically increased demand for some drugs, the FDA took far more actions to avoid shortages...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fda-took-exceptional-steps-to-prevent-drug-shortages-last-year

Medically Necessary: Shoring up the pharmaceutical supply chain

8 April 2021

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration scientist evaluates beads used for coating a controlled-release generic drug. (Credit: FDA photo by Michael J. Ermarth)

The problem: Drug shortages have plagued the U.S. for years, but the scarcity of certain drugs during the pandemic energized some experts to renew efforts to address the problem.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration currently lists more than 100 drug shortages, mostly for cheap, injectable drugs.

Nearly half of the 40 drugs needed to treat COVID-19 patients experienced shortages in 2020, according to an analysis of FDA data by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy.

The...

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