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  "id": 12081,
  "url": "https://theconversation.com/keeping-drugs-free-of-contaminants-pharmaceutical-manufacturers-filter-medications-through-tiny-pores-to-keep-them-sterile-and-safe-279962",
  "title": "Keeping drugs free of contaminants – pharmaceutical manufacturers filter medications through tiny pores to keep them sterile and safe",
  "summary": "History has shown that when manufacturers skimp on sterile filtration of drugs, the consequences can amount to the loss of hundreds of lives and millions of dollars.",
  "authors": "Shreya Kapila, Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Engineering, Penn State",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "biotech",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-20T12:25:43.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-21T05:10:12.656Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-conversation-technology",
  "source_name": "The Conversation Technology",
  "source_homepage": "https://theconversation.com/us/technology",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12081",
  "original_url": "https://theconversation.com/keeping-drugs-free-of-contaminants-pharmaceutical-manufacturers-filter-medications-through-tiny-pores-to-keep-them-sterile-and-safe-279962",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
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