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One of the major new components of USP General Chapter <797> on sterile compounding requires the ...

MARCH 26, 2025

Ensuring that your compounding facilities are in compliance with USP General Chapters <797> and <800> ...

MARCH 26, 2025

With shortages of IV fluids expected to persist for an undetermined length of time due to the severe damage caused ...

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In 2024 on-site surveys, The Joint Commission will look to make sure hospital and critical access pharmacies have ...

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Each year, Patricia Kienle, RPh, MPA, BCSCP, FASHP, shares 10 points for pharmacists to ensure compounding safety ...

JUNE 18, 2024

The arrival of USP General Chapter <800>, which became federally enforceable on Nov. 1, 2023, provides a new ...

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Duke University Health System has been doing bulk nonsterile compounding since well before there was a USP Chapter ...

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

After years of revisions, comments and changed go-live dates, the compendial standards found in USP General ...

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The time has come! Many cleanroom projects that had been put on hold have now resumed and facilities are gearing up ...

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The new chapter defines compounding as combining, admixing, diluting, pooling, reconstituting, repackaging, or ...

MARCH 28, 2023

As you focus on preparing to implement the USP’s revised Chapter <797> on compounded sterile ...

MARCH 6, 2023

As the summer doldrums hit most parts of the country and staffers begin to take vacation, it’s easy to slip ...

AUGUST 18, 2022