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United States of America: Creation of a Strategic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Reserve (COVID-19 related)

Announcement

19 May 2020

The aim of the Strategic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Reserve is to provide a national stockpile to secure key ingredients used for the domestic manufacture of essential medicines, reducing U.S. dependency on foreign supply chains.

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Number of interventions

1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

1 in force

Implementation date

19 May 2020

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Public procurement localisation In force

The Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a policy initiative on May 19, 2020 that is aimed at reducing U.S. dependenc...

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