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8 March 2019

FDA to alter biosimilar ‘suffix’ policy

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday announced draft revisions to its policy on the naming of biosimilars, in an attempt to appease critics who say that renaming previously-licensed products is too expensive.

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