Contract development and manufacturing organisation (revision 1)
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| Contract development and manufacturing organisation | |
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| Abbreviation | CDMO |
| Function | Development and manufacture to a customer specification |
| Consequence | Brand and manufacturer are frequently different |
| Topic infobox · conventions | |
A contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) develops processes and manufactures material to the specification of a customer who sells it under their own name. The arrangement is ordinary across the pharmaceutical and fine-chemical industries and is not in itself remarkable.[1]
Its consequence for anyone reading supplier documentation is that the organisation named on a catalogue is not necessarily the organisation that made the material. A brand may be a manufacturer, a distributor of its own contract-manufactured material, or a reseller of another's — and the documentation may not distinguish these.[2]