Flexible Approach To Multilingual Packaging Now Standard In EU

EU member states have agreed to routinely use a flexible process that can facilitate the use of multilingual packaging for prescription-only medicines.

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Flexibility On Preparing Multilingual Packs Can Improve The Availability Of Medicines In Smaller EU Countries • Source: Shutterstock

A new coordinated approach for preparing and evaluating multilingual packaging for drugs assessed under the EU’s mutual-recognition and decentralized (MR/DC) procedures has now been established as standard practice by regulators, after it proved successful in a four-year pilot.

Multilingual packaging involves the use of two or more EU languages on at least one component of the packaging material...

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