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1. Challenges and regulatory context
First of all, we need to clarify the concept of a drug. According to the terms of the French Public Health Code, a drug can be :
"... any substance or composition presented as having curative or preventive properties with respect to human or animal diseases..."; case of a medicinal product by presentation;
"... any substance or composition which may be used in or administered to humans or animals, with a view to making a medical diagnosis or to restoring, correcting or modifying their physiological functions by exerting a pharmacological, immunological or metabolic action..."; case of a drug by function.
Thus, a product may be classified as a medicinal product on the basis of its qualitative and/or quantitative composition, or on the basis of the information affixed to its...
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Challenges and regulatory context
Bibliography
- (1) - - http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/ fs275/en/ (page consultée le 7 septembre 2016).
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Websites
Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (ANSM) http://ansm.sante.fr/Activites/Falsifications-de-produits-de-sante/ La-lutte-contre-la-contrefacon/(offset)/7 (page consulted on September 7, 2016)
Council...
Standards and norms
- Impurities : Guideline for Residual Solvents - ICH Q3C(R5) - 2011
Regulations
Law no. 83-634 of July 13, 1983 on the rights and obligations of civil servants. Law known as the Le Pors Law (consolidated version of March 3, 2002).
Directive 2011/62/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of June 8, 2011 amending Directive 2001/83/EC on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use as regards the prevention of the entry into the legal supply chain of...
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