title: Contract sterilization and validation companies offer new options for sterile compounded preparations.
abstract: To ensure patient safety, adhere to good compounding practices, and safeguard against professional liability, the sterility of some compounded preparations must be assured. When in-house sterilization capabilities do not suffice, the intervention of a contract sterilization and/or validation company can assist in establishing the sterility, purity, and potency of the pharmaceuticals used in compounded preparations. In this article, three contract steriliziation companies and two contract validation firms are profiled, methods that compounders can use to best interface with those companies are presented, and sterilization and validation processes are explained and compared.
authors: Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
authors: Kenneth S
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