INSIDE PHARMA

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Big Pharma begat Small Pharma, to create the SARS-CoV-2 injections' illusion that was BioNTech and Moderna

Big Pharma begat Small Pharma, to create the SARS-CoV-2 injections' illusion that was BioNTech and Moderna

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Education in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Subscribers may now have cottoned onto the value of having a basic, uncomplicated understanding of the pharmaceutical supply chain. To recap with something I wrote in 2019:

“As a patient, what picture comes to mind when you think of pharmaceutical supply-chains?

  • Not a single one?

  • Lorries pulling up at the hospital unloading bay?

  • Vans delivering into your local pharmacy?

If those are mainly the pictures that come to mind, you should get a lot out of this book.

There is much more to it than that. That’s only the tip of the iceberg. The journey through the various production stages, beginning with raw materials, sees drugs and their components travel tens, if not hundreds of thousands of miles. They go through multiple airports, seaports, countries, and continents. They are acted upon, handed over, acted upon again, handed over again…

…and so it goes.

The typical length, from beginning to receipt of the product in your hand, is around three years. That…

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