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🏭 The EU excels in innovative medicines but faces challenges: over 50% of medicine shortages are due to manufacturing issues and we also need to be vigilant about keeping generic drug production in Europe.
Our Critical Medicine Act aims to:
💊 ensure that essential medicines are always available to EU patients, filling gaps where the market falls short
🇪🇺 boost local production
🧪 improve security of supply of key ingredients
= more stability for the EU's pharmaceutical industry.
That’s all very nice but a lot of the problem is linked to precursors (I’m not sure if it’s the right term in English), chemicals required to produce drugs. Most of those are sourced in China (surprise), sometimes India (which is becoming a medical chemistry powerhouse, despite having a production ranging from the totally legit high end to the utterly worst of the counterfeit drugs containing shitall active ingredients (this part is also true for China of course).
Anyway a bit of the production is coming back to Europe (for some basic stuff, like paracetamol). But the local pharmaceutical companies aren’t super eager from what I’ve read. They’d rather cruise along sell rights, and not have to deal with dirty stuff like actual pills. At least that’s certainly that’s what it feels like.
Note: I’m just a local, not at all plugged in the industry.
That’s all very nice but a lot of the problem is linked to precursors (I’m not sure if it’s the right term in English), chemicals required to produce drugs. Most of those are sourced in China (surprise), sometimes India (which is becoming a medical chemistry powerhouse, despite having a production ranging from the totally legit high end to the utterly worst of the counterfeit drugs containing shitall active ingredients (this part is also true for China of course).
Anyway a bit of the production is coming back to Europe (for some basic stuff, like paracetamol). But the local pharmaceutical companies aren’t super eager from what I’ve read. They’d rather cruise along sell rights, and not have to deal with dirty stuff like actual pills. At least that’s certainly that’s what it feels like.
Note: I’m just a local, not at all plugged in the industry.