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Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) is an application submitted by a drug manufacturer seeking marketing authorisation, that is permission to bring a medicinal product (for example, a new medicine or generic medicine) to the market.
As of 2016, the EMA was roughly parallel to the drug part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), [53] but without centralisation. [54] The timetable for product approval via the EMA's centralised procedure of 210 days compares well with the average of 500 days taken by the FDA in 2008 to evaluate a product. [55]
This process is performed within a legal framework defining the requirements necessary for successful application to the regulatory authority, details on the assessment procedure (based on quality, efficacy and safety criteria), and also the circumstances where a marketing authorisation already granted may be withdrawn, suspended or revoked. [1]
It was developed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA, Europe), the Food and Drug Administration (USA) and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Japan) starting at World Health Organization International Conference of Drug Regulatory Authorities (ICDRA) at Paris in 1989. [1]
(Reuters) -ARS Pharmaceuticals said on Friday the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended the approval of its needle-free emergency treatment, EURneffy, for allergic reactions. The nasal ...
The EMA accepts Sanofi's (SNY) regulatory submission seeking approval for olipudase alfa, a potential treatment for acid sphingomyelinase deficiency.
Like ordinary EMA marketing authorisations, a PUMA approval is valid in all countries of the European Economic Area (the European Union as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway). The PUMA process was established to make it more profitable for pharmaceutical companies to market drugs for children.
Before a drug can be prescribed, it must undergo the FDA's approval process. While a drug can feasibly be used off-label (for non-approved indications), it still is required to be approved for a specific disease or medical condition. [2] Drug companies seeking to sell a drug in the United States must first test it.