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Mutual Recognition's Next Evolution May Be Sharing Info On India And China Inspections

 
• By Derrick Gingery

Now that US FDA has approved the final EU authority, mutual recognition efforts could expand and deepen. Former FDA chief counsel Rebecca Wood discusses the future of approval standards harmonization in Pink Sheet interview.

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Sharing information about facilities outside the FDA and EMA jurisdictions could be an important step for mutual recognition. • Source: Shutterstock

The US Food and Drug Administration and its European colleagues soon may begin considering how and whether to share facility information related to India and China now that mutual recognition is taking hold.

With its 11 July recognition of Slovakia’s State Institute for Drug Control, the US FDA has finished assessing the capabilities of all 28 EU member state pharmaceutical inspectorates under a...

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