Lately, the phrase pharmaceutical safety conjures up images of 2D bar codes, discussions of serialization and pedigree, 10 years of rolling implementation of the Federal Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA) but pharmaceutical safety means something much more basic and, sadly, long overlooked.
Pharmaceutical safety certainly includes safe transit from the point of manufacture to the pharmacy which sums up DQSA but, it also includes safe delivery to the patient, safe use by the patient and safe keeping of the drug to ensure efficacy is maintained.