EMA STRIKES COOPERATION DEAL WITH INSPECTION BODY
February 2nd, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COOPERATION agreement has been struck between the international Switzerland-based Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme (PIC/S) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Both sides will work together in training medicine inspectors; participate in each other's meetings; exchange information, especially on good manufacturing and distribution practice; and also in auditing pharmaceutical industry inspectorates. The agreement will last two years and then be reviewed. The aim of the deal, said a joint communiqué, was "the sharing of ...
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