Sunday, November 29, 2015

PIC/S Elects New Chairman, Adds Croatia’s HALMED as Participating Authority

The Plan of Pharmaceutical Inspection Cooperation (PIC / S) elected Paul Hargreaves Regulatory Agency of medicines and products for healthcare in the UK (MHRA) as its new president in 2016 and 2017.

Hargreaves, voted at a meeting in Indonesia last month, will be the fourth PIC / S Chairman of the UK and will continue the march of Joey Gouws, chief of the Board of Control of Drugs in South Africa, which was the first PIC / S acting president for Africa.

After the successful implementation of the new structure of PIC / S subcommittee in 2014, incumbents were also elected for the next seven subcommittees: Training (SCT); Circles of experts (of SCEC) Strategic Development Community (SADC); Compliance (CSC); GM (D) P Harmonization (SCH); Budget, Risk and Audit (SCB) and communication (COM SC).

All continents are represented by the 52 newly appointed charge holders, and 29 are non-European authorities PIC / S participants.

Croatia

In addition to the new president, PIC / S invited the Agency for Medicines and Health Products in Croatia (HALMED) to join the scheme from 1 January 2016. HALMED become the 48th participating authority PIC / S and previously applied for Agency accession on 5 September 2014.

The driver has been accepted in after an assessment of the paper, followed by a site visit from June 29 to July 3, 2015 program was conducted.

Six other regulators have applied for PIC / S, including ANVISA Brazil, Iranian Ministry of Health (in the site visit in September), the COFEPRIS Mexico (site visit scheduled for 2016), FDA Thailand, Philippines PFDA TMMDA and Turkey.

Also, an update on the future potential applicants was given at the October meeting, especially in trade with Food and Drug Administration of China in their interest to ask the PIC / S in the near future.

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