Packing and Distribution Facility Further Enhances Pharma Outsourcer’s Offering

Quay Pharma is adding to its range of services to support clinical trials with the establishment of a dedicated packing and distribution facility at its Deeside, UK, headquarters. The new £100,000 MHRA (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency) approved area will give Quay the flexibility to respond to client requirements for bulk delivery of product and to meet increasing demand for just in time deliveries to support randomised and blinded studies.

Quay offers the filling of primary packs, including bottles, tubes, blister packs, sachets and oral dosing syringes, followed by secondary packing. As well as providing multi-language labelling, blinding and randomisation, working with its sister company Chester Medical, a commercial packaging provider, Quay can provide individually designed patient packs that are optimised to aid patient compliance and assist in trial success.

Quay also supports cold chain management, including shipping and storage to ensure product quality and security are maintained throughout the distribution process. The inclusion of tamper evident seals and code break labels can be incorporated as part of the packing process.

The new facility is the latest development for Quay’s purpose-designed £2.5 million factory in Deeside, which was opened in June 2010 and offers a wide range of specialist services, including formulation development, novel drug delivery design, analytical method development and clinical trial manufacture.

“Quay has developed this service to assist a number of our clients for whom we have developed products, as they move through to Phase II and Phase III clinical trials,” commented Quay Pharma Chief Executive Maireadh Pedersen. “This is an important enhancement to our client offering, enabling us to continue to support our customers throughout their development phase.”

Quay Pharma, +44 151 203 9800, enquiries@quaypharma.com, www.quaypharma.com.