Petition Piles Pressure On FDA Over Biosimilar Suffix
Executive Summary
A citizen petition filed by biosimilars industry veteran Sarfaraz Niazi has once again urged the FDA to reconsider its approach on biosimilar naming, along with suggesting changes to language used by the regulator to describe biosimilars.
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