Martin will drive compliance with all Univar’s regulatory and quality processes in Europe, including the European GMP directive for the use of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients. Liaising with the commercial teams, Martin will ensure that customer needs are met throughout EMEA and are fully in line with Univar’s food, pharmaceutical and personal care offerings.
Univar said the customer support Martin will offer will be invaluable given the firm’s recently announced European distributorships for Dow Carbowax Sentry products (which include both excipients and APIs) and Innophos’ calcium phosphate products and for new suppliers of highly regulated APIs such as Gharda and RN Laboratories.
An integral part of Martin’s role over the next few months will also be to monitor the progress of amendments to the European Falsified Medicines Directive and to ensure Univar’s processes are up-to-date.