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Radiochemistry – radiopharmacy – medical physics

Administering radioactive products to a patient requires full respect of pharmaceutical and nuclear safety regulations, among others concerning purity, sterility, and radiation dose. The first two relate to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) which describes the minimum standards that manufacturers must meet in the production and/or labelling processes. The third one concerns the correct measure of the radioactivity and the dose calculation.

Comparable to constraints in the transport sector, time is a major challenge in this link of the supply chain as the half-life of some medical isotopes is so short that all manipulations, such as labelling and QA procedures, affect the final amount of the radiopharmaceutical available for clinical use.

Most of the companies cited, started as spin-offs of Belgian universities and have grown into leaders in their respective fields. A common characteristic of the companies is their creativity and fast response to new developments, inherited from their academic origins.

Administering radioactive products to a patient requires the full respect of pharmaceutical and nuclear safety regulations concerning purity, sterility, and radiation dose. Most companies started as spin-offs of Belgian universities and are now leaders in their field.