Fresenius Kabi USA, a healthcare company that specializes in life-saving medicines and technologies, and Phlow Corp. (Phlow), a public benefit essential medicines solutions provider, today announced an alliance to reliably supply high-quality essential medicines utilizing advanced manufacturing processes based in the USA. Essential medicines, as defined by the FDA last year, are priority medications that are necessary to sustain the health of the American population or are medically necessary to have available at all times.
The parties will work together to supply private-labelled products specifically for hospitals that are part of the Children’s Hospital Coalition: Powered By Phlow (www.childrenshospitalcoalition.org) and to co-develop and manufacture novel pharmaceutical products. Phlow and Fresenius Kabi USA have also agreed to work together to make essential medicines rapidly available in the event of a public health emergency by being prepared to rapidly convert into finished drug products the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) that are stored in Phlow’s Strategic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Reserve (SAPIRTM). This alliance is designed to help resolve drug shortages and ensure that Americans have an uninterrupted supply of critical essential medicines at all times, including in the event of a crisis such as a future pandemic, natural disaster, or trade dispute when our domestic supply chain is most vulnerable.
“We are thrilled to enter into a broad strategic alliance with Fresenius Kabi USA for this critical work of reliably supplying high-quality U.S. - based essential medicines,” said Eric Edwards, M.D., Ph.D., President and CEO of Phlow. “At Phlow, we are dedicated to advancing essential medicine solutions to ensure that no patient, especially a child, ever has to be told that a critical medicine is unavailable because of a drug shortage or other supply chain disruption."
Children’s hospitals serve an especially vulnerable population. Phlow and Fresenius Kabi USA will produce a range of private-labeled essential medicines specifically for pediatric patients. Children’s hospitals often must prepare their own medicines, which includes reformulating adult doses to meet the unique needs of children. If certain adult medicines are in short supply during a public health crisis, children’s hospitals may struggle to access needed medicines, forcing patients onto alternative therapies or delaying needed treatments. Fresenius Kabi and Phlow intend to address this need by producing a reliable supply of ready-to-administer medicines in dosage forms appropriate for children.
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