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Session 3: Integrity of the Supply Chain and Global Product Quality
Session Chair(s)
Mike Ward
Coordinator, Regulatory Systems Strengthening, EMP
World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland
Latin American markets have become more vulnerable to and negatively impacted by the international movement of spurious, substandard, falsified, falsely-labeled and counterfeit (SSFFC) medical products. This session will focus on the region’s efforts and initiatives to ensure that the trade in legitimate products is not disrupted. Specific areas to be discussed, include, but are not limited to, a) good distribution practices, b) controls on components used as part of good manufacturing practices and quality management systems, c) import and export practices, d) dispensing practices via the Internet, e) detection technologies, among others.
Speaker(s)
Introduction
Mike Ward
World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland
Coordinator, Regulatory Systems Strengthening, EMP
Traceability in Brazil
Jésica Carino
Medicamentos y Productos Médicos, ANMAT, Argentina
Fiscalizadora, Programa Nacional de Control de Mercado de
Guatemalan Regulation on Counterfeit Medicines
Raul Mendoza Paredes
Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance, Guatemala
Coordinator, Legal & Technical Unit
Update on RX360
Anthony Zook, PharmD
Merck and Co., Inc., United States
Senior Project Manager, Counterfeits Management
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