Puerto Rico's slow recovery from Hurricane Maria provides insight into what happens when disaster strikes a node of the global pharmaceutical manufacturing network. Initial efforts to ward off US drug shortages focus on generic injectables that can't support expensive business continuity plans – but even critical prescription brands could be threatened if the US territory's power grid remains off line too long.
Hurricane Maria's Sept. 20 takedown of Puerto Rico's power grid is testing the business continuity plans of the US territory's dozens of pharmaceutical plants, particularly those making generic injectables that sell for the price of a latte.
The threat to US supply of 14 critical drug products made only in Puerto Rico is a reminder that when...
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