Opinion: For medicine regulators, reliance is a global imperative
A new report from the U.S. National Academies, "Regulating Medicines in a Globalized World," shows how regulatory authorities can work together and avoid duplication.
It’s never been more challenging to make sure that medicines meet standards for quality, safety, and effectiveness. Rapidly evolving technologies, advances in medical therapies, and increasingly complex supply chains are stressing medicine regulators around the globe.
Great gains can be made when countries’ medicine regulators work together and share resources to ensure that their citizens have timely access to high-quality, safe, and effective medicines — an important role of government and an essential public health function.
Regulatory authorities that share information or that rely on each other’s work have expedited the approval of essential vaccines and medicines, prevented the distribution of substandard and fake medicines, and
