CASE STUDY: Meet a F500 pharmaceutical company that doesn’t sweat highly regulated, high-volume, urgent language translations

Client Profile

Large multinational medical device and pharmaceutical leader that specializes in nutrition, diagnostics, medical devices, and branded generic pharmaceuticals.

Industry: Pharmaceutical

Company size: 10,001+ employees

Headquarters: Illinois

Type: Public Company, Fortune 500

Specialties: Nutrition, Diagnostics, Medical Devices, and Branded Generic Pharmaceuticals
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Planning a back translation

Receiving complaints, concerns, or running into legal and regulatory issues are all more good reasons to consider a back translation. This is the process where a translated document is translated back into its source language by a different translator. It helps to check how close the original translation was to the source material, and highlight any inaccuracies and mistakes. Key things to consider when planning a back translation are:
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Why you need linguistic validation

Get a group of people together from various countries and you’ll quickly discover that there is no such thing as a direct translation. What means one thing in English could mean something completely different in Spanish.

When performing medical studies or case studies in various regions, you need to do more than basic translation. You must also understand the context of language in each region. All this falls under the category of linguistic validation. Read more

BURG: The right pick for pharmaceutical translation services

When it comes to pharmaceutical translation, it’s not enough to have someone skilled in a particular language; you must have someone skilled in your industry. Pharmaceutical translation projects have a unique set of needs and standards. Meeting these standards requires a perfect combination of industry experience and linguistic expertise.

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