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In 2014 the company made an offer of around $100 billion to acquire UK firm AstraZeneca (which at the time was going through a rough patch ). The $12 billion deal was cleared in November 2020, creating a generics behemoth with annual sales of around $19 to $20 billion and operations in 165 markets around the word.
While WHO began assessing regulatory systems in 1997, work on the unified tool began in 2014 and it has subsequently incorporated various revisions in response to stakeholder feedback. Collecting real world safety data, including country-specific data, and information sharing was key to ensuring safety of COVID vaccines.”
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