Webinar Title: Detecting Contaminated Medicines
This session is intended to enhance the competence of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, quality control scientists, regulatory inspectors and other healthcare professionals by deepening their understanding of methods, standards, and technologies for detecting substandard and contaminated medicinal products.
Objectives:
- Define contaminated medicines and differentiate between contamination, adulteration, falsification and degradation.
- Outline laboratory and field-based methods for detecting contamination (microbiological, chemical, physical, visual, and digital surveillance methods).
- Discuss regulatory frameworks, pharmacopeia standards, and international guidance (WHO PQ, USP, ISO, etc)
- Share case examples and lessons from recent recall events or investigations.
- Highlight gaps and opportunities to strengthen detection capacity in low-resource regulatory settings.
Speaker: Dr. Francis Chiumia
Francis Chiumia, PhD, is a registered pharmacist, pharmacovigilance scientist, and pharmacometrician with a passion for the utilization of real-world data for improving medicine safety, patient car,e and public health. He currently serves as a lecturer in pharmacy at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences.
Date: Tuesday, 18th of November 2025
Time: 12.00 Noon CAT
Duration: 90 min
CPD Points: 1.5 (2 for Pharmacists, Pharmacy Assistants, and Pharmacy Technicians in Malawi)