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Brown F
Sustainable Drug Development: More than Being “Green” / A systems-based approach to optimizing for quality, safety, and environmental impact · Brown F · Accelrys, Inc., San Diego, California (USA)
Today's pharmaceutical companies have a lot of “X” factors they need to optimize. In a highly regulated environment, they need to optimize for quality and safety, hence the concept of Quality by Design (QbD). But replace quality with an X ( X byD), and we can drop in any number of equally important objectives. There's profitability–how can organizations get new drugs to market as quickly and cost effectively as possible? And, in part prompted by compliance demands, while in part prompted by economics and consumer expectations, companies are also seeking to optimize for sustainability. But what does sustainability really mean? ...