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🏭 The EU excels in innovative medicines but faces challenges: over 50% of medicine shortages are due to manufacturing issues and we also need to be vigilant about keeping generic drug production in Europe.
Our Critical Medicine Act aims to:
💊 ensure that essential medicines are always available to EU patients, filling gaps where the market falls short
🇪🇺 boost local production
🧪 improve security of supply of key ingredients
= more stability for the EU's pharmaceutical industry.
Bringing back drug manufacturing is important for many reasons, but drug safety is high on that list too. Sterile products shouldn’t be made in a factory where workers are allowed to be barefoot. Drugs that fail microbiology quality tests shouldn’t simply be retested until they pass.
Bringing back drug manufacturing is important for many reasons, but drug safety is high on that list too. Sterile products shouldn’t be made in a factory where workers are allowed to be barefoot. Drugs that fail microbiology quality tests shouldn’t simply be retested until they pass.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/barefoot-workers-bacteria-found-at-factory-that-made-big-brand-eye-drops/