Pharmaceutical risk: Product Liability

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Pharmaceutical risk Product Liability

• Who is at Risk?
• Pharmaceutical manufactures
• Inadequate warning on labeling
• Inadequate testing
• Over-promotion
• Defective drug
• Contamination or adulteration

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Different types of liability

• Pharmacists responsibility to patients
  
  
• Viagra and Nitro. pills
• Failure to label prescriptions properly.
• Failure to warn a patient of any side effects,
  can be considered negligent.

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Who and what are affected?

• Who?
• The Pharmacist/Pharmaceutical company
• Consumers
• What?
• Profits/Public belief in the product(s)
• Consumers health and welfare

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Office Exposures

• 60 of Employees
• Computer Related
• Repetitive Stress
  Syndrome

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Unique Manufacturing Exposures

• Over Exposure to Chemicals
• Airborne Particles
• Radiation

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Ways to Limit Exposure

• Follow the strict OSHA guidelines
• Automate production
• Ventilation
• Frequent examinations

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Non Insurable Risks

• Design issues
• Meeting their own manufacturing standards
• Meeting FDA standards for human consumption

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Controlling Risks

• Through Patents
• Through product improvements
• Through a miscellaneous reserve account