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Health Care Inspectorate (IGZ) request to marketing authorisation holders: questionnaire for pharmacovigilance
The Dutch Health Care Inspectorate (IGZ) has developed a risk model for pharmacovigilance to obtain more insight into the risks ...
Policy for the national informed consent marketing authorisation application
A company that wants to apply for a marketing authorisation for a medicinal product that is identical to another product that is ...
One step closer to less animal testing
In the future, a part of animal testing for new medicines will no longer be necessary. In most cases, testing on one species of ...
Retrospective MEB eDay 2017: Change in sight
In order to respond to e-developments, it is important that the information provision by the Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB) can ...
Notification form medicine shortages and defects now also in English
As of today, the notification form of the Medicine shortages and defects notification centre is now also available in English. ...
Science Day 2017 - Generic drugs in society: the regulator’s dilemma
Trust, costs, safety and proper information are the words that regularly recurred during the 6th Science Day of the Medicines ...
The Netherlands a candidate for future EMA location
The Netherlands has submitted its candidacy as the country of choice for housing the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The EMA is ...
Santeon and MEB exchange information about prescription of medicinal products
In the coming year, the Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB) and hospitals affiliated with Santeon will exchange anonymous ...
Start of Medicine shortages and defects notification centre
Today, the Medicine shortages and defects notification centre has been launched. The notification centre is located at the ...
Stricter requirements on the packaging of medicinal products to prevent falsification
The packaging of certain medicinal products for human use must have safety features implemented before 9 February 2019. This is ...