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New Challenges in Quality Control and Licensure: Regulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2009

Kenneth R. Brown
Affiliation:
Merck Research Laboratories
R. Gordon Douglas Jr
Affiliation:
Merck Vaccine Division

Abstract

The Children's Vaccine Initiative (CVI) will result in profound changes in immunization practice. Before the CVI is fully developed, it will present numerous challenges to regulatory practice that will require new applications of existing ideas and innovative solutions to practical issues, especially in combining existing vaccines.

Type
Special Section: Vaccines and Public Health: Assessing Technologies and Public Policies
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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