Until the early 2000s, pharmacists compounded parenteral nutrition (PN) without standardized guidelines, automation or procedures, putting patients’ health at risk. That’s certainly no longer the case, with a plethora of new technology and published material now available to guide safe nutrition therapy, panelists noted during a session at the ASPEN 2025 Nutrition Science & Practice Conference, in Columbus, Ohio, celebrating 50 years of advances in nutrition