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Each retort should Alternatively, a recording tachometer be equipped with a pressure gage, may be used to provide a continuous which should be graduated in divisions record of the speed. A lock, or a be equipped with an automatic steam notice from management posted at or controller to maintain the retort tem- near the speed-adjustment device that perature. This may be a recording-con- provides a warning that only author- trolling instrument when combined ized persons are permitted to make ad- with a recording thermometer. A justments, is a satisfactory means of steam controller activated by the preventing unauthorized changes. Critical factors able if it is mechanically maintained specified in the schedules process shall so that it operates satisfactorily. Bleeders, except those for essing record at intervals of sufficient thermometer wells, shall be one-eighth frequency to ensure that the factors inch or larger and shall be wide open are within the limits specified in the during the entire process, including the scheduled process. Graduations on seam (vent hole) cans may be measured the temperature-recording devices by net weight determinations. When shall not exceed 2 °F within a range of the product consistency is specified in 10 °F of the processing temperature. The temperature chart shall and recorded at intervals of sufficient be adjusted to agree as nearly as pos- frequency to ensure that the consist- sible with, but to be in no event higher ency is as specified in the scheduled than, the known accurate mercury-in- process. Minimum closing machine glass thermometer during the process vacuum in vacuum-packed products, time. 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In short cheap evista 60mg otc pregnancy 15 weeks, “At every step of the supply chain there is this unequal knowledge, and people are exploited because of [it]” (Mackintosh et al. Market controls and oversight aim to correct the information imbal- ance in the medicines market, but supervising sprawling multinational dis- tribution chains is a “regulatory nightmare” (Economist, 2012). To start, different countries and international stakeholders cannot agree on how to defne the problem. When it is framed as one of counterfeit and legitimate drugs, many civil society groups and emerging manufactur- ing nations see a thinly veiled excuse to persecute generic drug industries (Clift, 2010; Economist, 2012). Large innovator pharmaceutical companies have the most experience in fnding and prosecuting pharmaceutical crime. The Economist recently described the 21st century as “a golden age for bad drugs” (Economist, 2012). Small travel delegations of committee members and staff also visited experts in Brasília, Delhi, Geneva, Hyderabad, London, and São Paulo in the summer of 2012. In total, the committee heard input from 106 experts in its information gathering meetings. They re- viewed the competing and often overlapping defnitions of the terms coun- terfeit, falsifed, and substandard, as well as similarly important concepts such as unregistered. As Tables 1-1 through 1-6 make clear, some of these defnitions have evolved over time, with the trade and intellectual property debates of the last 20 years coloring how people use words like counterfeit. The following brief background on intellectual property, public health, and patent and trademark infringement gives some context to this discussion. Key Findings and Conclusions • A long and acrimonious history of applying intellectual property rights to medicines colors the discussion about drug quality. The broad use of the term counterfeit, meaning made with intention to deceive, is insufciently precise for formal, public discourse. It will begin by developing among the committee members and for this context consensus working defnitions for the terms substan- dard, falsifed, and counterfeit. The committee will carefully distinguish between the application of these terms to meet public health and legal needs. This is intended to provide context to the study but not to serve as an in-depth analysis. Intellectual Property and Public Health Intellectual property rights, particularly patent rights, allow the owner of a new product or technology to recoup their research and development costs by charging prices far above the marginal cost of production. There- fore, patent-protected medicines are expensive; the cost of these drugs puts them out of the reach of many patients. In developed countries, govern- ments or large private insurers can mitigate this problem (Rai, 2001). But in poor countries, health insurance is limited and noncompetitive pricing can exclude entire countries from the medicines market (Yadav and Smith, 2012). Explain how these technologies can be best used and implemented in a system to stop the circulation of harmful drugs. This includes rec- ommending defnitions for the products in question that would be sensitive to the needs of drug regulators around the world and focuses on the public health. It also includes recommending how various regulators could collaborate on a global and regional level to best address the problem. The expense of the patent-protected drugs put them out of reach for all but 2 percent of the approximately 2. Tensions over patent protection came to a head in 2001 when the Pharmaceutical Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. After 2001, innovator drug companies began issuing more voluntary licenses at lower prices (Flynn, 2008). More recently, regulators and innovator pharmaceutical companies have devised other ways to make patent-protected drugs available in de- veloping countries. Drugs granted tentative ap- proval “[meet] all safety, effcacy, and manufacturing quality standards for marketing in the U. Patent and Trademark Infringement Patents, not trademark or trade dress, are the main source of ten- sion between intellectual property and public health.
