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Almac Provides Urgent Packaging Services

E. coli outbreak requires rapid turnaround

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By: Tim Wright

Editor-in-Chief, Contract Pharma

Almac provided rapid packaging and distribution of Alexion Pharmaceuticals’ Soliris during an E. coli outbreak in Germany this past spring and summer. The large outbreak of food-borne E. coli infection resulted in more than 800 cases of STEC-HUS (Shiga-toxin producing E. coli hemolytic uremic syndrome), an ultra-rare and life-threatening complication of the infection. Alexion contracted Almac for assistance in delivering the drug, packaged and labeled, to the EU, and requested an extremely shor...

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