Catalent Launches Clinical Supply Services at Facility in Japan
Catalent Pharma Solutions, is introducing its clinical supply services at its 200,000 square foot. cGMP facility in Kakegawa, Japan. The site, which has been providing oral drug development and manufacturing solutions for more than 40 years, will offer clinical supply solutions to meet the needs of both domestic and global clinical trial sponsors.
The facility will provide full-service solutions, including project management and clinical supply management, comparator sourcing, secondary packaging and labeling, clinical storage, distribution, and drug return and destruction. Construction has already begun at the facility and is expected to be fully validated and operational in the second quarter of 2016. The services it is to provide will complement those from Catalent's existing footprint in Asia-Pacific, which comprise a full-service primary and secondary clinical packaging and storage facility in Shanghai, a secondary packaging and clinical storage facility in Singapore, and a regional depot network.
Source: Catalent Pharma Solutions