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Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Genetic Scissors
Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to two women for the first time. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna developed the gene editing tool CRISPR-cas9 genetic scissors…
Latest News from the MHRA: MHRA joins up with Australia, Canada, Singapore and Switzerland regulators
The MHRA is the latest regulator to join the Australia-Canada-Singapore-Switzerland (ACSS) Consortium..
Responsible Person (imports)
Are you prepared for the changes which come into effect with Brexit? From 1st January 2021 the UK will no longer be in the EU…
HMRC Customs Grant Scheme
HMRC has made record funding of £50 million available to enhance its Customs Grant Scheme. From 29 July 2020, organisations can apply for funding to reimburse a number of costs associated with increasing their capacity and enhancing their ability to complete customs...
Become a Responsible Person import
Are you a QP or RP? Do you want to become a Responsible Person import (RP-i)? You are in the right place. From October 2020 PCL is offering RPi training we point out the most important tasks and new requirements for eg. product check and border control. The training...
New packaging deadlines for UK products
All UK MA holder have to register for a new Great Britain Marketing Authorisation to convert their previous EU wide MA. They will get new Great Britain MA number therefore the packaging have to be changed…
Could we see more pharmacists working remotely?
It has been debated over the last three years whether a pharmacist can work remotely in crisis situations and it has arisen again considering the pressures we are facing during the Covid-19 outbreak…
Know your GDPs and your “ Vs” “Us” and “Ws”
In the past, the MHRA has told a pharmaceutical wholesaler to find a new Responsible Person when they did not know the correct definition for “GDP” in their MHRA inspection. The RP used the “ Gross Domestic Product “ definition to his peril…
Vaccines (Covid-19)
Vaccines are critical to public health as they prevent disease and curb community transmission…
Home-Working
Covid-19 will become synonymous with ‘working from home’ and has caused many businesses to re-consider how they operate day to day. So given that the required technology has been around for some years, why has it taken Covid-19 to prompt this re-think…
Business Informatics
I am not a fan of business jargon, but I came across this term some years ago, not sure where. Whilst I am not even sure of the original meaning it has stuck with me as a possible name for an area of business analysis that experience would show, many organisations ignore or at least don’t do very well…
New requirements using RoRo Ports for Export & Import
Export from EU to the UK.