Continuous Manufacturing Back In Second Act

House tries again to promote advanced technology for the return of pharmaceutical manufacturing to the US in post-COVID-19 era.

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house churns out another continuous manufacturing bill

The new HEROES Act legislation revives a proposal to establish national centers of excellence for continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing that had earlier made it into the US House of Representatives' version of the CARES Act but not the final enacted CARES pandemic relief law.

The HEROES bill (HR 6800) authorizes $100m for the centers of excellence, available until expended. That’s up from the...

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