EFPIA Good Practice for preventing risk for drug shortages - Revised, October 2014
EFPIA member companies are committed to provide patients with continuous access to high quality medicines. To this effect, the pharmaceutical industry continues to establish increasingly robust quality and business management practices including holistic quality management systems, market forecasting methods and inventory management techniques. The successful implementation of these practices, in an integrated manner, is critical to ensuring that patients can rely on a continued supply of quality medicines. This EFPIA Good Practice describes in more details such management system that actively assures and monitors quality standards, inventory levels and market signals.