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July 4, 2023

Practical Law: Life Sciences Regulation in Vietnam 2023

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Practitioners from Tilleke & Gibbins’ Vietnam offices contributed content for the latest edition of the Practical Law Life Sciences Global Guide. The guide provides a comparative overview, in Q&A format, of laws and regulations on pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and other life sciences products in dozens of jurisdictions around the world.

The Life Sciences Global Guide is divided into two sections: Commercialization (see more details here) and Regulation, which covers the following topics:

  • Pharmaceuticals: Laws and regulatory authorities
  • Clinical trials: Legal, regulatory, and procedural requirements
  • Manufacturing and distribution
  • Marketing: Authorization for marketing medicinal products, monitoring compliance and penalties, pharmacovigilance and other commitments, foreign marketing authorizations
  • Data privacy
  • Packaging, labeling, and tracking
  • Biological medicines
  • Medical devices: Legislation and regulatory authorities, definition and classification
  • Healthcare IT
  • Combination products and borderlines
  • Natural health products
  • Recent developments and reform proposals

Practical Law, produced by Thomson Reuters, is the world’s leading legal know-how resource for business lawyers, publishing a huge range of guides covering hundreds of jurisdictions and practice areas.

The full “Life Sciences Regulation in Vietnam” section can be found on the Practical Law website.

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