When deciding which compounding pharmacy you can trust to prepare your medication consider:
- Our laboratory is a multi clean room facility which avoids any cross contamination of products and was built to USP standards. We have a negative pressure hazardous lab seperate to a positive pressure non hazardous lab. Each room has an independent air supply which is filtered to 5 microns. Each room is temperature, humidity and pressure controlled.
- Our laboratory is also equipped with an ISO 7 sterile room and adjacent ISO 8 ante room for the production of sterile products. The air is filtered to 0.2 microns and maintained under the appropriate positive pressures.
- Our laboratory is equipped with sophisticated compounding equipment including NATA approved air-handling hoods and electronic balances.
- Our compounding consultant Dr Michael Serafin has a PhD in pharmaceutical chemistry and been involved in compounding since the mid 1990′s where he was teaching compounding at Sydney University and thus is one of the most highly qualified and experienced complex compounding consultant/specialists in the country.
- Our laboratory adheres to USP approved Standard Operating Procedures for every aspect of compounding from washing glassware, technician attire to raw ingredient monitoring and checking procedures.
- Our laboratory has a Certificate of Analysis on file for every raw ingredient currently used which proves the purity of each raw ingredient we use. We also test active ingredients we receive from our suppliers to prove their identity and purity to make sure they are what we are told they are.
- We perform in house sterility testing on our sterile products and appropriate environmental monitoring for our sterile room and our GERMFREE ISO Class 5 sterile laminar flow Barrier Isolator to ensure sterility. We also perform endotoxin testing on raw materials.
- We routinely disinfect the sterile rooms from the ceiling, walls and floors by rotating various disinfectants / sporacidal agents to avoid any resistance and thus contamination to our sterile products.
- Our clean rooms undergo daily cleaning and steam sterilization to maintain clean aseptic compounding areas.
- We have our end products independently analyzed periodically to ensure they contain the amount of active ingredient specified on the label.
- Our lab has a 4 stage reverse osmosis unit which produces highly purified water for all our non sterile products that contain water such as our creams.
- Our laboratory produces our own cream base which is free of parabens, hormone disruptors, propylene glycol and other hidden nasties commonly found in many creams on the market today.
- We use compounding specific software which allows us to track used by dates, batches, lot numbers, etc which is required for recalls if needed.
- We keep compounding records of everything produced in our laboratory which records the ingredients incorporated into each product and the exact weight of each ingredient used (to the nearest milligram) along with batch numbers and expiry dates of each ingredient for quality control and recall purposes.
- Each order is checked several times including the product record form before being released for sale to minimize the chance of human error.
