JANE BURGERMEISTER REPORT: ‘ACCOUNTS OF EUROPEAN MEDICINES AGENCY REJECTED BY EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AFTER DRUG SCANDALS’

ACCOUNTS OF EUROPEAN MEDICINES AGENCY REJECTED BY EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AFTER DRUG SCANDALS Jane Burgermeister | June 21, 2011 at 1:37 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/puNtl-1je

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT REFUSED TO APPROVE EMA’S ACCOUNTS

IN MAY 637 MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT VOTED AGAINST AN APPROVAL OF THE ACCOUNTS OF THE EUROPEAN MEDICINES AGENCY. ONLY FOUR MEMBERS WOULD APPROVE

By Kaysa Nynne Kledermann

An overwhelming majority of the European Parliament decided in May 2011 not to approve the accounts of the European Medicines Agency (EMA). This according to a report appearing in Danish media on June 10, 2011.

The Agency, that approves and monitors drugs at the European level, is mainly funded by the pharmaceutical industry.

The European Parliament asks for EMA’s financial structure to be analyzed in a report.

The accounts will be treated in the European Parliament for a second time in November.

There are several reasons for this parliamentarian landmark decision.

Among other things it happens in the wake of the withdrawal from the market of the slender means “Mediator”.

It took EMA no less than ten years, from the first reports of serious adverse events in the use of the slender means “Mediator” occurred, and until the pills were finally drawn from the market. Read more of this post