Where are the ingredients in your medicine coming from?

Published: Nov. 15, 2022, 5:53 p.m.

We all take medicine at some time or another, but what do we know about how these medicines are made? We asked Joe Topczewski, a chemist who has been part of both academia and industry, about pharmaceuticals: how they are made, how they become available, and how they are regulated. We learned that there is a lot of freely available information on federal government pages regarding most pharmaceuticals that are accessible to the general public.