PAREXEL Expands Clinical Trial Supply, Logistics Services
Parexel announced the opening of its new European Coordination Hub and Distribution Center in Berlin-Sch?nefeld.
Parexel announced the opening of its new European Coordination Hub and Distribution Center in Berlin-Schönefeld, Germany. Its capabilities include synchronized coordination of clinical trial supplies, ancillary supplies and central laboratory services and features more than 65,000 cubic meters of storage space. It offers lab-kit assembly and provides storage and distribution of ancillary materials.
The new European Coordination Hub and Distribution Center will be licensed to store Investigational Medicinal Products (IMPs) and Non-Investigational Medicinal Products (N-IMPs). It will also offer secondary packaging, re-labeling, and compliance with Good Distribution Practice (GDP) of medical devices and ambient, refrigerated and frozen medicinal products, including controlled substances. On-site Qualified Person (QP), Quality Control (QC) and production personnel will manage regulatory-compliance requirements. They will also streamline product import, receipt, storage, packaging and labeling, release, shipment, return and destruction timelines.
PAREXEL also is opening new full-service clinical trial supply depots in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and São Paulo, Brazil. The facilities are part of PAREXEL’s growing global system of more than 50 owned or in-network depots and three regional distribution centers.
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