MHRAsafety guidance83% confidence
Research: Use of UK plasma for the manufacture of five further plasma derived medicinal products and vCJD risk
Source: MHRA
Why This Matters
Why this matters: illustrates how regulators handled a comparable safety guidance decision relevant to Merck.
Regulatory Analysis
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) published a review of the safety of albumins manufactured from UK-sourced plasma with respect to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) risk in August 2023.
Supporting Context
- Therapeutic area
- Infectious Disease · HIV
- Sub-indication
- General
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