Sticking To Nitrosamine Evaluations Deadline Is Priority For EU Regulators

Companies have until early November to respond to a public consultation from the European Commission on its planned Biotech Act, which it hopes will help unleash the potential of small and midsize enterprises in the bloc.

This is an update of recommendations from the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use on the authorization of new medicines in the EU, and updates on EU marketing authorization changes recommended by the CHMP.

Selected vaccine developers will soon be able to use a new adjuvant “matchmaking” initiative that could help create more “effective, potent” vaccines against epidemic and pandemic threats, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations has said.

The European Medicines Agency is working on defining when and how external controls can be accepted in clinical research. Among other things, it is looking at the planning, design, conduct, analysis and reporting of studies for which external controls are used.