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When Things Go BumpintheNight:
Reverse Logistics
OVERVIEW
Title II of the Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA) is designed to
address the supply chain from manufacturer to customer or patient. is
works well most of the time. In a perfect pharmaceutical supply chain
world, there is no illegitimate product to quarantine, no damaged prod-
uct, no recalled product, and no damaged cases in transit. However, this
theoretical optimum scenario doesn’t exist. As in the Scottish prayer in
the Cornish and West Country Litany (1926), “things that go bump in
the night” do in fact happen.
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