The manufacture of drugs and medical devices which are used on humans are regulated by Good manufacturing Practices or GMP, and pharmaceutical companies must comply with this. GMP is used to ensure that the quality of drugs is kept high enough to avoid health risks. Every month there is new legislation falling under cGMP because new drugs are created and technology keeps getting better. It would be impossible for a pharmaceutical company to keep up with all of these new regulations unless they made use of GMP consulting.
A company can either hire a permanent member of staff to advise it on GMP or make use of an independent consulting firm. The latter choice is the best for sever reasons.
Firstly, it costs much less to hire an independent GMP consultant than it does to employ an in-house staff member. You will only need between two and four consultancy meetings per year unless there are major developments. A full time salary would start at
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