Keyword: Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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EU and US Mutual Recognition Pact Begins

02.11.2017 - Following an agreement signed in August of this year, the EU and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began mutually recognizing each other’s inspections of medicines...

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Roche and Warp Drive Bio Link on Antibiotics

30.10.2017 - As antibiotic resistance becomes an increasingly urgent threat to public health, pharmaceutical firms Roche and Warp Drive Bio have joined forces to develop novel classes of the...

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US and Canada Approve GSK Shingles Vaccine

24.10.2017 - The US Food and Drug Administration on Oct. 20 approved Shingrix, the long awaited recombinant, adjuvant new shingles vaccine manufactured by UK drugmaker Glaxo SmithKline (GSK)...

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Novartis to Close US Generics Unit, Keep Roche Stake

18.10.2017 - As generics pricing pressure increases, Swiss drugmaker Novartis said it will close a US plant at Broomfield, Colorado, owned by its Sandoz subsidiary and employing 450 people. It...

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Pfizer Sues J&J over Arthritis Drug

03.10.2017 - Pfizer is suing Johnson & Johnson (J&J) in the US over what it terms anti-competitive practices against its biosimilar Inflectra. The lawsuit is said to be the first of its kind...

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Indivior Settles Patent Dispute with Mylan

28.09.2017 - UK-based specialty pharmaceuticals company Indivior, formerly part of Reckitt Benckiser, has reached an-out of-court settlement with Mylan Pharmaceuticals, which was planning to...

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The EXCiPACT Certification Scheme

27.09.2017 - There is a regulatory expectation that pharmaceutical companies will verify that the excipients produced by their suppliers are to an appropriate level of GMP. This has been...

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Novo Nordisk Settles $58.7 Million in US Fines

08.09.2017 - Danish pharmaceutical producer Novo Nordisk’s US subsidiary is paying nearly $58.7 million to resolve claims that, among other things, it misrepresented a warning by the US Food...