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The emergency with COVID-19 has created many problems, and the life science sector needs to address them with priority.

FREMONT, CA: Covid-19's disruptive effect on the supply of medication and medical devices has put several regulatory and enforcement teams under pressure. Prior to the pandemic, the life sciences sector was already experiencing significant regulatory changes and could quickly address new threats and priorities.

Businesses must consider how they can best leverage their restricted capital as the situation continues to expand. Re-appraising the balance between in-house skills and partnerships with strategic outsourcing can provide invaluable strategies and possibilities. More precisely, the use of strategic outsourced solution providers, when appropriate, will offer critical support to handle existing temporary uncertainty strategically, but also to meet long-term regulatory requirements. Several advantages, such as being prepared for quality and regulatory enforcement, speed time to market, decreasing the likelihood that goods may be taken off the market, and helping boost market share when demand increases.

A supply of expertise

Outsourcing is not merely for the intent of growing the capacity of capital, although this is a large and urgent concern. It must also allow access, at the time and place where they are most required, to skilled, capable, and experienced resources. 

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There is no flexibility in training in-house staff when problems need to be addressed immediately, nor is it cost-efficient to invest in developing only regularly required skills. The increased use of outsourced resources shows that several organizations realize their capacity to improve enterprises' resilience and the opportunity to draw on sources of valuable expertise.

Immediate pressures

 Regulators, purchasers, and manufacturers must concentrate on making current treatments and equipment required to handle the pandemic more accessible. Member States in the EU have been asked to guarantee that firms ramp up production where necessary and operate at maximum capacity. Without a degree of relaxation of regulatory controls, it cannot be accomplished. A variety of temporary emergency accommodations and approved derogations from some examination procedures have been implemented by the regulators to preserve supply and accelerate the production of new therapies.

Upcoming measures

 As a consequence of the pandemic, regulators are keenly aware of places where more can be done to improve the healthcare system's response capacity and disaster management. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) sets up the i-SPOC (Single Point of Contact Industry) framework to speed up the industry's reporting on medication shortages.