I’ve been reading the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report called “Countering the Problem of Falsified and Substandard Drugs” that was published last week. At 360 pages, it is quite literally a book, and you can buy it that way. But they also allow you to download the “Pre-publication Copy: Uncorrected Proofs” version in a 300 page PDF for free. I’m not sure why they would post uncorrected proofs rather than the final document on their site but I assume the text is in its final edited form and only the formatting might be different between the book and the PDF. I hope so anyway.
I have not yet read the whole thing so this isn’t intended to be a proper review (see the Regulatory Focus article about it). The document offers Continue reading Well-Intended Report Calls For Global Track & Trace Of Pharmaceuticals