Do you know where your pills come from? They probably have a long journey behind them. Active ingredients from China meet excipients from India to be pressed into tablets in France, which are blister-packed in Italy and packaged in Spain before being imported to Germany – sounds unrealistic? No, because the manufacture and distribution of pharmaceuticals is a global business. Therefore it is important to speak the same language in terms of the underlying regulations. In todays feature you will read a short summary of the WHO GDSP guideline, which is not only the latest, but probably also the most globally oriented guideline on the topic of good storage and distribution.