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Corporate Responsibility Report 2008

Supply chain

We want to source from companies that maintain high labour and environmental standards.

Inadequate environment, health and safety (EHS) and human rights standards are an indicator of poor management.

This can impact on quality, compromise patient safety and impede continuity of supply of essential medicines. Association with poorly performing suppliers could also damage our reputation.

We conduct detailed assessments of new and existing suppliers to monitor their performance on EHS and human rights issues. We work closely with our suppliers to prevent disruptions to the supply of our key medicines.

Counterfeit drugs can pose a serious threat to patients. We build anti-counterfeiting features into our products and packaging and we take steps to prevent criminals from making and distributing fake GSK products

We are also working to assess the environment, health and safety impacts of our manufacturing suppliers.

Our Supply Chain