EU: Falsified Medicines Directive ‘Delegated Act’ accepted by European Parliament

The European Falsified Medicines Directive in Poland: background, implementation and potential recommendations for pharmacists

By February 2019, the Polish pharmaceutical industry, community and hospital pharmacies, wholesalers and parallel traders must all comply with the EU-wide Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) legislation (2011/62/EU), to ensure that no medicinal product is dispensed to a patient without proper tracking and authentication. Here we describe how Poland is complying with the new EU regulations, the ...

The Falsified Medicines Directive: How to secure your supply chain

With new EU-wide legislation being introduced to protect patients from falsified medicines, how can the existing supply chain adapt and thrive in this new, safer environment? Falsified medicines, and supply chain security in general, are a global issue gaining great political and consumer attention. Although no formal study has been carried out on a global scale, it is known that the issue affe...

Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council

Awareness of the implementation of the Falsified Medicines Directive among pharmaceutical companies’ professionals in the European Economic Area

Background The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) is a response of the European Union to the increasing number of falsified medicines present in the legal supply chain within the Member States of the community. Effective implementation of the new regulations will depend on the effective cooperation of all parties involved in the distribution of medicinal products including the managers of phar...

The EU Parliament in clouds

In this study parsimonious language models were used to construct word clouds of the proceedings of the European Parliament. Multiple design choices had to be made and are discussed. Important features are stemming during tokenization, including bigrams into the word cloud and multi-lingualism. Also, the original parsimonious language models were extended with an additional term dampening unigr...