The winter season is often accompanied by health challenges. The cold air can contribute to various skin conditions, and it can dampen the immune system, leading to illness as well. Over the years, we have published some great information on compounding for this season in our members-only magazine, the Apothagram, so we decided to share some of that information in our latest blog post!

Don Bottoni, RPh, FACA, a PCCA Clinical Compounding Pharmacist provides two tests that can help pharmacies to test the quality of their Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) to ensure they are using high-quality, USP-grade DMSO.

PCCA's Matt Martin and Melissa Merrell Rhoads provide an update on the FDA's decision to designate human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) as a biologic product and what that means for compounders and for PCCA.

PCCA President Jim Smith provides an exciting and grateful end-of-the-year message for PCCA Members. He also provides an update on our goals moving forward into 2020.

Thank you to all of our readers and subscribers for supporting the PCCA blog, your support is what makes it the best compounding pharmacy blog online! We’re grateful to be able to produce content that professionals in the pharmacy compounding industry find valuable. With that said, come check out the top five, most valuable PCCA Blog Posts of 2019 that you might have missed!

Yi Liu, PharmD, PhD, PCCA Research Pharmacist has an exciting PCCA Science update on case studies, new product testing and comprehensive formula analysis revolving around our PCCA bases. Check it out!

PCCA celebrated its inaugural formulation challenge, a research and development competition at International Seminar 2019. Here's the skinny: a patient problem. Five teams. 60 minutes. One winner. Click here to see who took the grand prize!

June has some exciting guests including: Sara Hover, RPh and Deborah Clark, BSPharm, RPh, both from PCCA's Clinical Compounding group. Sara joined Seb and Mike to talk about how compounders can help with autoimmune disorders and Deborah discussed compounding for the veterinary world. Those topics, and so much more, are waiting for you on the latest episodes of The Mortar & Pestle.

Masking the taste of active ingredients in medications is difficult. With that in mind, PCCA Senior Formulation Pharmacist Fabiana Banov explains how your pharmacy can incorporate flavoring to make an unpalatable medicine delivery into a more pleasing experience.

Because it is so important in our industry, we decided to help the pharmacies who rely on PCCA for products and support by clarifying what we mean when we talk about quality. With that in mind, we would like to discuss The PCCA Standard--what it means for us and what it means for you.