FDA launch­es search­able Pur­ple Book

The FDA on Mon­day un­veiled the first ver­sion of its search­able on­line data­base of bi­o­log­i­cal prod­uct in­for­ma­tion, known as the Pur­ple Book.

Build­ing off the pre­vi­ous PDF lists of bi­o­log­i­cal prod­ucts, the data­base now al­lows for eas­i­er search­es and in­cludes in­for­ma­tion on prod­uct names (pro­pri­etary and prop­er), the type of bi­o­log­ics li­cense ap­pli­ca­tion (BLA) that was sub­mit­ted, strength of the bi­o­log­ic, dosage form, prod­uct pre­sen­ta­tion, li­cense sta­tus, BLA num­ber and ap­proval date.

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