FDA Implements Measures to Overcome Drug Shortages – What Manufacturers Should Know

• By: Staff Editor
• Date: April 16, 2012

Drug shortage in the US is going global, as the pharmaceutical industry is increasingly globalised, shortages in one country will affect others. In 2011, according to FDA, as many as 250 drug shortages have been traced, and a total of 195 drug shortages were prevented, as the Agency has taken proactive steps needed to increase available supply for patients in the U.S.