Assessment of current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) compliance in pharmaceutical manufacturers in Ethiopia: Cross-sectional descriptive study

Teka Benti Adola; Desta Assefa; Fikadu Ejeta; Fanta Gashe; Getahun Paulos; Dereje Kebebe Borga

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0343881

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Assessment of current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) compliance in pharmaceutical manufacturers in Ethiopia: Cross-sectional descriptive study

Teka Benti Adola ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Teka.B2025@wollegauniversity.edu.et (TB); dereje.keborg@gmail.com (DKB)

Affiliations School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia, School of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, Wollega University, Nekemte, Ethiopia

https://orcid.org/0009-0001-8314-4872

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Desta Assefa,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia
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Fikadu Ejeta,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia
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Fanta Gashe,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia
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Getahun Paulos,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia, Department of Pharmacy, Komar University of Science and Technology, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
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Dereje Kebebe Borga

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Teka.B2025@wollegauniversity.edu.et (TB); dereje.keborg@gmail.com (DKB)

Affiliations School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia, Department of Pharmacy, College of Applied Natural Sciences, Adama Science and Technology University, Adama, Ethiopia
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Assessment of current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) compliance in pharmaceutical manufacturers in Ethiopia: Cross-sectional descriptive study

Teka Benti Adola,
Desta Assefa,
Fikadu Ejeta,
Fanta Gashe,
Getahun Paulos,
Dereje Kebebe Borga

Published: March 9, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0343881

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