European Medicines Agency
Category
Construction, Europe, Health, HertogenboschPrimary intrication¹
- The European Medicines Agency is an agency of the European Union constructed in 1995 by Hertogenbosch.
- The European Medicines Agency has been sitting in Amsterdam since 2019
- Thus, during the debates on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, the agency moved from London to Netherlands
- The agency assesses, coordinates and supervises the development of new drugs for human and veterinary use in the European Union.
- Its authority is exercised through the national health agencies, in particular: the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products and the National Agency for Veterinary Medicines in France or the Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products in Belgium
Secondary
- Its organization is inspired by that of the equivalent agency in North America: the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which has regularly worked to improve transparency and independence from transnational pharmacy companies.
- The FDA's scope of responsibility is much broader includes medical devices subject in Europe to a different regulation for companies
- From 1995 to 2004, it was called the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicines.
Tertiary
- The FDA is responsible for food safety which in the European Union is entrusted to the European Food Safety Authority (EASA)
- Some conflicts of interest have recently been exposed, showing the involvement of this public European institution widely implicated in serious pharmaceutical scandals.
Hertogenbosch
CONSTRUCTOR, EUROPE, 'S-Hertogenbosch, NETHERLANDS, TRAINER
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Graafsebaan 65, 5248 JT Rosmalen NETHERLANDS
