International perspective on safety issues

摘要

Awareness of problems in relaton to the safety of medicines is increasing. The challenge to pharmacists is to increase their knowledge of processes known to reduce medicaton errors and to contribute to interdisciplinary methods of preventing and solving these errors. Four speakers at a board of pharmaceutical practice symposium on 2 September looked at the safety of medicines from the patient and the regulatory perspective and described the challenges of ensuring the safety of two specific types of products-herbal medicines and biotechnology products.