Berlin, Germany-based provider of contract research & development and custom manufacturing services, Ferak, has received GMP certification by the Berlin State Office for Health and Social Affairs (LAGeSo) for one of its Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API). The GMP certificate that has been obtained by help of the Administrative Court of Berlin is immediately available upon request. Prior to the allocation of the certificate an independent GMP expert authorized by the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel - BfArM) confirmed full EU-GMP Part II compliance of the manufacturing process and equipment. Further API certificates will follow, the company reports.

“I am more than proud to say that the whole team of Ferak has been working hard to achieve this highest quality standard in the chemical/pharmaceutical industry”, says CEO and managing director Thomas Gruendemann. “The combination of our scientific expertise with both a detailed documentation system and the latest production and analytical equipment is the key to the high purity of our APIs. A clear GMP aim and a zero defect supply chain history with all of our pharmaceutical customers have lead us to this level of excellence which meets exactly our mission statement The Art of Making Purity”, Gruendemann concludes.