Highly potent active pharmaceutical ingredients, or HPAPIs, are potent compounds that could effectively treat serious and life-threatening diseases such as cancer. Because of their high potency, these substances can put the workers in the production facility at risk. While exceptional product quality is required, additional measures must be taken to ensure operator safety.

At this online meeting, leading figures from the industry, occupational toxicologists, and containment specialists will review the most recent developments affecting the handling of HPAPIs. The discussion will center on the safe and effective processing of potent APIs, process development and scale-up, occupational health hazards, toxicological assessment, improvements in isolators and facilities to minimize exposure risk, containment and cleaning validation practices, and risk management for cross-contamination.