House pass­es two bills on con­tin­u­ous man­u­fac­tur­ing, stock­pil­ing ahead of fu­ture pan­demics

The House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives this week passed two bills to strength­en Amer­i­ca’s na­tion­al stock­pile of med­ical sup­plies and to al­low the FDA to des­ig­nate col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties as Na­tion­al Cen­ters of Ex­cel­lence in Ad­vanced and Con­tin­u­ous Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Man­u­fac­tur­ing.

The stock­pile bill, known as HR 3635, passed by a vote of 397-22. In­tro­duced by Rep. Elis­sa Slotkin (D-MI) and 15 oth­er cospon­sors, the bill would im­prove Amer­i­ca’s abil­i­ty to re­spond to fu­ture pan­demics, as well as han­dle the on­go­ing Covid-19 pan­dem­ic too.

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