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Cold Chain Management: Good Practices

BayBiotech.NET Cold chain management is a temperature-controlled supply chain management to insure an unbroken and uninterrupted series of storage and distribution activities which maintain a given temperature range. Cold chain management is used to extend the shelf life as well as to protect the temperature sensitive products such as fresh produce, photographic films, meat products and medicinal products from damages caused due to inappropriate temperature regulations during processing, delivery and storage. Food industry uses the process of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP), as a useful tool, however, its usage continues into other fields such as Pharmaceutical Industry. HACCP process identifies key action points known as Critical Control Points that are used to lower the hazardous risks. HACCP is based on seven principles. The seven principles are: (1) hazard analysis, (2) critical control point identification, (3) establishment of critical limits, (4) mon

European Medicines Agency : no longer ‘the EMEA’ – and not ‘the EMA’ either

BayBiotech.NET European Medicines Agency is in the process of changing its acronym from EMEA to EMA based on the feedback from the stakeholders over the past years who had questioned the existence of the second ‘e’ in the acronym which does not accurately reflect the full name. In addition, since EMEA is most frequently used in the business community to mean Europe, Middle East and Africa , European Medicine Agency has decided not to use EMEA to avoid the confusions. Since the inception, the adaptability of the acronym EMA is still to be validated and hence the agency decides to be using its full name as European Medicines Agency or the ‘Agency’ for short in the communications with e-mail ids being exceptions where ema will be used. The press release from EMEA has the details of all the recent changes that the Agency has undergone and is in the process of implementaion. Rest to follow…