US FDA 'resilience' report charts how inspection backlog grew and impacted approvals and compliance follow-up.
The US Food and Drug Administration says 48 decisions on human drug applications remain delayed by the difficulty of inspecting or assessing manufacturing facilities during the pandemic, including six considered to be mission-critical cases.
The agency has scheduled those mission-critical inspections for later this fiscal year, which ends 30 September.
EU authorities must “take advantage” of the upcoming Biotech Act to reassess the bloc’s policies and “offset existing challenges” for small and midsized enterprises, trade association EUCOPE has said.
The UK drug regulator, the MHRA, is set to launch its decentralized manufacturing framework in July, and has issued a series of guidance documents that it believes will help companies and also be of value to other countries that are considering how best to regulate the fledging sector.
If US tariffs on pharmaceutical supply chain products come into force they could be disruptive for companies. Ewan Townsend, of the international law firm Arnold & Porter, explains how companies can mitigate issues through negotiating with suppliers and reallocating tariff responsibilities.
President Trump’s new Executive Order on drug pricing reprises several policy themes from his first administration, including giving the FDA many tasks intended to increase competition in the marketplace.
Two pharmacies, a medical spa and a telehealth company voluntarily removed efficacy, safety and quality claims for compounded GLP-1 products after innovator companies filed challenges with the National Advertising Division.
The EU must renew the mandate of its Health Emergency Response Authority to support medicine stockpiles and enable agile manufacturing to combat antimicrobial resistance and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats, says trade organization EUCOPE.
If US tariffs on pharmaceutical supply chain products come into force they could be disruptive for companies. Ewan Townsend, of the international law firm Arnold & Porter, explains how companies can mitigate issues through negotiating with suppliers and reallocating tariff responsibilities.
