EU Pilot Facilitates Multilingual Packaging To Improve Medicines Availability

A six-month pilot has been launched in the EU to test new processes for multilingual packaging that allows the use of a reduced text on a medicine’s immediate and outer packaging, subject to agreement by member states.

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A new pilot to improve medicines availability in smaller EU member states is exploring the feasibility of implementing a coordinated approach for preparing and evaluating multilingual packaging for drugs evaluated under the mutual-recognition and decentralized procedures (MRP/DCP).

The pilot, launched by Europe’s Heads of Medicines Agencies’ Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures - Human (CMDh),...

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