[White Paper] Workflow Strategies to Minimize Exposure to Hazardous Drugs in the Compounding Pharmacy

The purpose of this article is to pull all of those chemical handling and compounding workflow strategies together into a more sequential model in an effort to minimize personnel and environmental exposure. The main focus of this article is on nonsterile hazardous drug handling processes, but the principles of GLP are applicable with both sterile and nonsterile chemical handling. We would also make the assertion that there is a higher likelihood of surface and airborne contamination in the non-sterile compounding rooms due to the volume and activity of dry powders being handled.