Civi­ca, Mayo Clin­ic and oth­ers sound off on FDA draft guid­ance to mit­i­gate drug short­ages

Sev­er­al phar­ma groups are lay­ing out the pos­i­tives and neg­a­tives of new FDA draft guid­ance on how best to han­dle drug short­ages.

The draft is in­tend­ed to help com­pa­nies de­vel­op and im­ple­ment risk man­age­ment plans (RMPs) to as­sist with any short­ages of drugs or bi­o­log­ics. The guid­ance rec­om­mends a frame­work and fac­tors for stake­hold­ers to de­vel­op RMPs for their es­tab­lish­ments, API man­u­fac­tur­ers and oth­ers.

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