COVID-19 is reshaping the pharmaceutical supply chain

Chemical & Engineering News ^ | Appreciate 27, 2020 | Rick Mullin

[bakkentom]

A pandemic should have taken no one by surprise. Scientific and government bodies, not to mention science fiction writers and filmmakers, have been raising the alarm for years. Nor should anyone be surprised to learn that pharmaceutical chemical manufacturing—and the production of finished-dose generic drugs—has steadily moved to China and India as Western drug companies and contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) sought to cut costs and wash their hands of the highly polluting chemicals used to make drugs.

[bakkentom]

China supplies 13% of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients. Imagine this is much higher on addition of ventilators, masks, etc.

Besides economics should we do much more of this to develop processes to clean up pollution. Otherwise Asia ruins the oceans.

[Candor7]

Imagine this is much higher on addition of ventilators, masks, etc. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Testing Red Chinese ventilator:

[bakkentom]

The group is also communicating to the FDA the importance of the earlier links in the pharmaceutical supply chain. “There are a lot of raw materials that aren’t available from the US; they are only available from China,” DiLoreto says. “It makes it difficult to suggest that bringing all the API manufacturing back to the US and Europe solves the problem. It doesn’t if we can’t control the whole supply chain.”

That awareness is quickly emerging. In the US, White House economic adviser Peter Navarro proposed a “Buy American” executive order last month. Meanwhile, the Protecting Our Pharmaceutical Supply Chain from China Act, introduced by Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI), calls for a cessation of purchases of APIs and finished drugs from China by 2022.

[bakkentom]

Get all the greens on board by bringing back all the outsourcing done over last two decades and cleaning up the pollution. Asia will have to pay us for systems and products for the cleanup. Basically an international patent.

Make it enforceable, can the UN do something rignt.

[catnipman]

“China supplies 13% of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients”

from reading labels on bottles, i wouldn’t be surprised if 90% of supplements are made in china ... for example, try to find vitamin c that’s not made in china ... i could find only one outfit in Scotland that makes non-Chinese Vitamin C ...

[bakkentom]

The highest polluting rivers into the oceans are from China and india. Where the hell are the earth protectors. This is direct and uncontestable. Climate change is a ghost compared to this.

I believe the China % as high as 80% for antibiotics.

[bakkentom]

I take a lot of supplements. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA is on one of the bottles. From foreign countries, how accurate is any regulation.

I have doubts about whether some actually works, still running on hope. But the big concern is antibiotics, vaccines, cancer drugs. Bring all of that back home.