Ruffled feathers and interim measures: API rules applied
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
It wasn't quite an international incident, but this year's introduction of new EU rules for certifying the quality of imported active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) certainly ruffled many feathers among regulators in the world's major API supply markets.
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