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Benzinga
Benzinga
Technology
Vandana Singh

Antibiotic Makers Adopt Their Own Environmental Safeguard Standards

  • The AMR Industry Alliance, a life-sciences coalition set up to provide sustainable solutions to curb antimicrobial resistance (AMR), is adopting its standards limiting toxic emissions.
  • The Alliance published its Antibiotic Manufacturing Standard: Minimizing the risk of developing antibiotic resistance and aquatic ecotoxicity in the environment resulting from manufacturing human antibiotics. 
  • The Standard guides manufacturers in the global antibiotic supply chain to ensure that their antibiotics are made responsibly, helping minimize the risk of antimicrobial resistance in the environment.
  • The standard will be launched next spring by the Alliance.
  • "The challenge of regulation is - on the environmental side, it's country by country, so it's very difficult to set international environmental regulation," Steve Brooks, the Alliance's manufacturing workgroup lead, told Reuters.
  • GSK Plc (NYSE:GSK) says its sites fully comply with the manufacturing standards and expects to have third-party sites entirely on board by the end of 2022.
  • "Contracts with suppliers are discontinued if a supplier was unable or unwilling to meet the discharge limit," a GSK spokesperson told Reuters.
  • Price Action: GSK shares are up 1.03% at $41.67 during the market session on the last check Wednesday.
  • Photo Via AMR Industry Alliance
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