European Union
- April 11: The Icelandic NMVO (ICEMVO) announced R8.0 for SolidSoft blueprint NMVSs. Most of the changes are back-end enhancements related to APIs for pharmacies and wholesalers. Although it has yet to be implemented, one notable enhancement is a “Repeat check-out alert for the same user” that is intended to reduce L5 alerts where a warning will be issued in lieu of an alert. The threshold number of retries is being negotiated within the EU.
Brazil
- April 11: The Normative Instruction was not discussed at the April 7 meeting of ANVISA directors (DICOL), nor is it on the agenda for April 14 due to the nation’s COVID crisis. The next meeting will be April 29.
Uzbekistan
- April 11: Industry discussion continues on the traceability pilot guidelines since the scope appears to be “medical products” as opposed to medicines only.