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Pharmaceutical products and processes are fields in which countries have specific regulatory bodies, as their population health is at stake. This means that a lot of technical information must be translated from the source language\u00a0(usually, but not always English) into local languages.<\/p>\n
In an industry where production from research to the market means huge investments, translators need specific requirements including technical background and experience.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, documents concerning pharmaceutical products have two main targets, professionals (research, patent documents, Summaries of Product Characteristics \u2013SPCs are required as part of the authorization process in the EU-) and patients (information for use, instructions-for-use inserts, package insert, Product Information Leaflets \u2013PILs are required by the FDA in the US -). This represents an important challenge for the right professional in order to ensure not only accuracy both in content and terminology, but also consistency.<\/p>\n
This is why managing a\u00a0pharmaceutical company<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has \u2013 among others \u2013 an essential requirement for success: adequate pharmaceutical translators<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n In this article we examine some of the pharmaceutical translator\u2019 s tasks.<\/p>\n