Learn From Regulatory Innovation During COVID-19, Urges Global Self-Care Industry

The Global Self-Care Federation has published three papers outlining how regulatory flexibility and innovation seen during the cornavirus pandemic can be brought forward to a post-pandemic consmer heathcare sector. 

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The Global Self-Care Federation is urging authorities across the world to reflect on the regulatory innovations introduced during COVID-19 to keep medicines on the market and to retain those that will continue to benefit consumers in the post-COVID era.

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