Perrigo’s clinical trials on CBD likely will take years before resulting products help bring order to the market. During earnings presentation, CEO Murray Kessler says the trials aren’t intended to establish claims for CBD but are more a long-term effort to provide data to FDA.
Perrigo Company PLC will conduct clinical trials with cannabidiols in support of its $50m investment in CBDs supplier Kazmira LLC and to generate data to give the US Food and Drug Administration confidence in the ingredients’ safety.
The trials likely will take a “few years” as part of Perrigo’s “long-term play” in the CBD space and aren’t intended to establish claims, said president and CEO Murray
Reclassifying ethanol as a carcinogenic, mutagenic, or reprotoxic substance - something the European Chemicals Agency seems likely to do in the near future - would be “tantamount to a de facto ban” with “fatal consequences” for medical care in Germany, says Pharma Deutschland in a joint paper with 13 other German healthcare industry associations.
Two AESGP papers reviewing the evidence for AMR risk associated with a range of OTC antifungals and antivirals conclude there is litte to no risk associated with the responsible self-care use of such medicines.
“Protecting the environment is a shared responsibility. It is unfair to expect only two sectors to fund wastewater treatment modernization and operation,” argues AESGP director general Jurate Švarcaite.
