February 2018

February 28, 2018

USP 797 and Pharmaceutical Compounding

Assuring a Sterile Environment Launched in 2008 by the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP), General Chapter 797 is, in part, a response to the history of deaths and injuries attributed to contaminated pharmaceuticals. From the deaths of four patients in Nebraska in 1990 to an FDA announced recall by U.S. Compounding, Inc. of sterile compounded products in 2015, a Timeline […]