Canada Proposes List Of ‘Critical Products’ & More Agile Regulation To Address Shortages
Executive Summary
The Canadian government says stakeholders are “poised for action” to improve the collective response to medical product shortages and has come up with some questions and possible answers as to how best to go about it.
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