Quality

Total quality at Ethypharm means mobilising all teams and all available methods to continue developing, in terms of compliance, costs and deadlines, a winning company and to make our customers "happy".

Given its activities, Ethypharm has a duty to comply with all Quality standards and international regulations for its manufacturing operations (GMP) as well as for its scientific (GCP) and pharmacovigilance (GPVP) affairs.

A harmonised Group Quality system helps Ethypharm ensure the application of the same standards to all of its activities, whether in Europe, North America or Asia.

The Quality compliance of the Ethypharm operations is under constant evaluation through Regulatory Inspections and customer-conducted audits.

This is how, for example, from 2004 to 2010, Ethypharm was successfully inspected by:

• The Afssaps (the French Health Products Safety Agency): 15 inspections, representing the equivalent of 70 days for a single inspector
• The FDA (US Food and Drug Administration): 7 inspections, representing the equivalent of 46 days for a single inspector.

Moreover, during that same period, Ethypharm underwent 160 customer audits, or the equivalent of over one year (374 days) for a single auditor.