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The EU’s new pharmacovigilance law could cost generic drugmakers fees totaling as much as $330,000 for each drug they make to cover postmarketing assessments. Read More
Drugmakers in the EU are pushing back against a proposal moving through the EU Parliament that would grant clinical trial participants the right to demand that their trial data — including data shared between regulators and other entities — be deleted. Read More
Sponsors should gather supportive data from two definitive clinical trials to establish efficacy for drugs proposed to treat chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis, the FDA says. Read More
Indian generics makers Sun Pharma and Ranbaxy are both facing individual Class II U.S. recalls related to product mixups. Both recalls were included in the FDA’s March 5 enforcement report. Read More
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is calling on EU makers of seasonal influenza vaccines to develop enhanced safety signal monitoring systems that identify increases in allergic reactions, moving away from systems that simply check for specific batch deviations. Read More
The FDA will create a pharma-only enforcement unit that promises more consistent inspections and enforcement decisions with fewer bureaucratic hurdles for investigators to issue warning letters. Read More
The FDA and European Medicines Agency (EMA) have launched a new information-sharing initiative they hope will coordinate and speed international responses to drug safety problems. Read More
Concerns with particulates in injectable drugs is plaguing Agila Specialties again as the Mylan unit Feb. 19 revealed that its Polish plant is at the center of a recall of an anesthetic product. Read More
Porcine trypsin (PTy), a starting material used in biologic drugs, should be tested just after it is produced to ensure material from a single infected pig doesn’t enter production batches, EU regulators say. Read More