Best Pathway To Interchangeable Insulins Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

Approaches suggested at a US FDA public hearing include allowing follow-on insulins to take a direct route to interchangeability without first having to be approved as biosimilars, and automatically declaring biosimilar insulins interchangeable with one or more reference products.

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Stakeholders have different views on how to secure interchangeability designations for biosimilar insulins. • Source: Shutterstock

The US Food and Drug Administration heard a lot of agreement about the need for interchangeable insulins at a 13 May hearing, but different views on how to get there.

Representatives from the biopharma industry and other players in the health care sector, as well as academics and clinicians, suggested...

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