New safety features to protect EU citizens from falsified medicines
by Andrzej Rys, Director for Health Systems, Medical Products and Innovation, DG Health and Food Safety, European Commission
European citizens deserve medicines that are safe, of high quality and effective. Falsified medicines may contain ingredients of low quality or in the wrong dosage – and therefore pose a major health threat to EU citizens. The Falsified Medicines Directive – in force since January 2013 – aims at making medicines safer. To this end, it mandates the Commission to set out measures to verify medicine authenticity and improve the quality of medicine ingredients.
On 9th February, the Commission published the Delegated Regulation on the safety features for medicines for human use – the last, but certainly not
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