EU Regulator Urges Firms To Up Their Game On Drug Shortages
Executive Summary
New guidance from the European Medicines Agency is calling on supply chain participants to be more proactive in forecasting and notifying medicine shortages, while a group of EU member states has said that “more drastic steps” need to be taken to improve the security of medicines supply.
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