Pharmaceutical industry groups pushed back on expansion beyond CARES Act requirements that agency proposed in draft guidance, saying it would increase the risk of drug shortages instead of reducing it. One group went further, objecting to cGMP regulatory creep into the supply chain.
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Pharmaceutical industry groups have urged the US Food and Drug Administration to dial back the expectations for supply chain risk management planning that the agency laid out in recent draft guidance.
The guidance the FDA drafted in May called for not only the development of supply chain “redundancy risk management plans”...
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The US FDA Commissioner pushed for a rebalancing of the US’s pharmaceutical supply chains while also stressing that there is a role for US-China commerce that would be risky to compromise.
The UK regulator approved 16 medicines containing a new active substance in the first half of this year, while the European Commission issued marketing authorizations for 20 NAS-containing drugs.
Joint clinical assessment reports must be descriptive rather than reach definitive conclusions, and must not interfere with national decision making processes, according to new EU guidance.
Joint clinical assessment reports must be descriptive rather than reach definitive conclusions, and must not interfere with national decision making processes, according to new EU guidance.