FDA Issues Proposed Rule on Standards for the Licensing of Wholesale Distributors and 3rd-Party Logistics Providers

To try to avoid supply chain disruptions based on licensing uncertainties, the FDA has issued a proposed rule on the standards for licensing wholesale drug distributors and third-party logistics providers.…

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User Fee Hearing Highlights Confirmatory Studies for Drugs That Get Accelerated Approval

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Director Patrizia Cavazzoni fielded questions from lawmakers yesterday on confirmatory trials for drugs that receive FDA’s accelerated approval, during a hearing on reauthorizing…

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MPP Inks Deal With South Africa’s Afrigen, Declaring the Company the ‘Global mRNA Vaccine Technology Transfer Hub’

The United Nations-backed Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) announced yesterday that it signed an agreement with Cape Town, South Africa-based Afrigen Biologics “to allow Afrigen to establish itself as the global…

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