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Brexit: MHRA Joins Second International Work-Sharing Scheme To Speed Up Drug Approvals

 
• By Neena Brizmohun

Hot on the heels of announcing it was joining Project Orbis, the UK drug regulator, the MHRA, now says it will join another international collaboration that allows drug companies to submit medicines for review by several countries at the same time.

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The UK medicines regulator, the MHRA, is joining yet another established international regulatory collaboration for speeding up drug evaluations when the Brexit transition period ends – this time the Australia-Canada-Singapore-Switzerland (ACSS) Consortium. 

The move was revealed on 14 October, just over a week after the UK government announced that the MHRA was joining drug regulators from the US, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Singapore and Switzerland in Project Orbis. Project Orbis, which is led by the US Food and Drug Administration, focuses on cancer drugs and enables the regulators to simultaneously review and approve new products faster

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