Potential Governing Body Emerges For DSCSA Tracing Of US-Marketed Drug Packages
Executive Summary
The idea of establishing a non-profit governance group to coordinate the package-level tracing of pharmaceuticals through the US distribution chain that DSCSA requires drew widespread support at a May 1 PDSA meeting in Washington, DC. PDSA wants to get the group up and running by October.
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