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Home » 82 Percent of Essential Medicine API Makers Are Foreign, Says OPQ Annual Report
82 Percent of Essential Medicine API Makers Are Foreign, Says OPQ Annual Report
Heavy reliance on foreign manufacturing for essential medicines is at the root of FDA concerns over supply chain and drug shortages, according to a report from the FDA Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ) that shows 82 percent of API and 57 percent of finished dosage form manufacturing sites are outside the U.S.