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Quotable: Top Experts On Policy Hot Topics

 

The Pink Sheet highlights recent comments and insights from pharma officials and executives on key issues we are covering.

Companies Advised To Assess Potential Impacts Of Landmark Global Pandemic Treaty

 

Mechanisms in the draft treaty that the more than 190 member states of the World Health Organization have finally agreed to are expected to “materially affect companies,” particularly those that develop, manufacture or distribute pandemic-related health care products.

ICH Modernizes Stability Testing Guideline

 
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The International Council for Harmonisation has consolidated and modernized its existing stability guidelines into one document, and addressed modern stability testing approaches like modeling, bracketing, and matrixing.

Pulling Together: Global Regulators Discuss Convergence On Biosimilars

 
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While the biosimilars industry has welcomed individual pockets of progress around regulatory streamlining, it is essential that approaches from global authorities move forward together if they are to have a meaningful impact on biosimilar development. At Medicines for Europe’s annual biosimilars conference, regulators from around the world talked about how their thinking is converging.


Global Pharma Guidance Tracker March 2025

 

Stay up to date on regulatory guidelines from around the world with the Pink Sheet’s Guidance Tracker. The complete Global Pharma Guidance Tracker, with sortable and searchable listings going back to 2014, is available online.

Industry Benefits As EU CTIS Hits Global Data Sharing Milestone

 

The EU Clinical Trials Information System has achieved primary registry designation in the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform in a move that is expected to reduce regulatory burden for companies and help them lower compliance costs by aligning with publication requirements in medical journals.

Gene Therapy ‘Survival Of The Fittest’ – Why Companies Need To Understand Health Systems

 

Cell and gene therapy manufacturers must consider the practicalities of their product within the context of a health care system before it comes onto the market to be successful, experts from Novartis, AstraZeneca and England’s National Health Service say.

Global Pilot Reduces Drug Manufacturing Inspections With Hybrid Approach

 
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A global collaborative inspections pilot reduced the number of individual inspections for participating manufacturing facilities, demonstrating that multiple regulatory authorities can carry out joint inspections using a mix of on-site and remote approaches.


Quotable: Top Experts On Policy Hot Topics

 

The Pink Sheet highlights recent comments and insights from pharma officials and executives on key issues we are covering.

Eisai Still Considering Next Steps After Australia Again Rejects Alzheimer’s Drug Leqembi

 

The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration proposed a narrower indication that Eisai rejected.

Global Pharma Guidance Tracker – February 2025

 

Stay up to date on regulatory guidelines from around the world with the Pink Sheet's Guidance Tracker. The complete Global Pharma Guidance Tracker, with sortable and searchable listings going back to 2014, is available online.

Global Regulators Consider Extending Pilot On Post-Approval CMC Changes After Positive Findings

 

Regulatory authorities from multiple regions are considering extending a pilot project related to collaborative assessments of post-approval chemistry, manufacturing and controls changes, with a focus on the supply of critical medicines.


New Global GCP Standard Puts Proportionality In Focus For Trial Sponsors

 
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Pharma industry representative at the ICH expert working group that drew-up the new international good clinical practice standard is advising trial sponsors to focus on proportionality and a risk-based approach throughout their trial design, conduct, analysis and reporting.

EU Product Liability Directive Could Spell Trouble For Non-EU Pharma Firms

 

The EU’s new Product Liability Directive will make it easier for European consumers to seek compensation relating to defective products even if manufacturers are based outside the bloc. Legal experts caution that this could have substantial implications for pharmaceutical companies.

Quotable: Top Experts On Policy Hot Topics

 

The Pink Sheet highlights recent comments and insights from pharma officials and executives on key issues we are covering.

IGBA Picks Apart Innovator Patent ‘Gaming Systems’

 

The International Generic and Biosimilar Medicines Association has introduced its first global intellectual property and competition report, addressing the urgent need to reform current regulations. But, in a bid to increase access to medicines across the world, did it stop short at just IP and patents?


Global Pharma Guidance Tracker – January 2025

 

Stay up to date on regulatory guidelines from around the world with the Pink Sheet's Guidance Tracker. The complete Global Pharma Guidance Tracker, with sortable and searchable listings going back to 2014, is available online.

WHO Issues Environmental Sustainability Call To Regulators And Pharmaceutical Industry

 

The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched an initiative to highlight the pressing global need to reduce the impact of the pharmaceutical industry on the environment while maintaining high standards of safety and efficacy for products.

Quotable: Top Experts On Policy Hot Topics

 

The Pink Sheet highlights recent comments and insights from pharma officials and executives on key issues we are covering.

ICH Heralds New Era For Clinical Trials With Renovated E6(R3) Guideline

 
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Modernized good clinical practice principles finalized by the International Council for Harmonisation focus on fostering a quality culture, proactively designing quality into trials, identifying factors critical to trial quality, engaging interested parties, and using a proportionate risk-based approach.