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Off Script: A Pharma Manufacturing PodcastAuthor: Pharma Manufacturing
The Off Script podcast offers in-depth interviews and discussions with industry experts about hot-button topics in pharma, and goes behind the scenes of Pharma Manufacturings print and online coverage, which follows the industrys biggest issues surrounding scale-up, technology innovations, regulations and more! Language: en Genres: Business News, News Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Fixing the Structural Weaknesses in the Global Drug Supply Chain: Part One
Episode 112
Tuesday, 3 March, 2026
The global medicine supply chain faces mounting strain from chronic generic drug shortages, geopolitical tensions, and heavy reliance on geographically concentrated manufacturing. Quality failures, pricing pressures, and opaque sourcing of key starting materials have exposed structural vulnerabilities that extend beyond routine disruptions to broader national security and public health risks. This episode is part one of a two-part series examining the root causes of these vulnerabilities and the structural changes needed to address them. In this series, we spoke with Ronald T. Piervincenzi, Ph.D., CEO of the U.S. Pharmacopeia, about how these risks emerged and what it will take to build a more resilient pharmaceutical supply chain. In part one, Piervincenzi explains why generic drug shortages and national security concerns are often conflated, how extreme price erosion is driving manufacturers out of the market, and what USP’s data reveals about supply concentration, including the critical role of key starting materials sourced from countries like China and India. The conversation also dives into USP’s new Resilience Center and the strategic role it will serve in improving supply chain security.
