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Recently, three British MPs went to Canada on a fact-finding cross-party trip to consider the effects of a more relaxed regulatory environment in respect of cannabis.

As of January 1, 2025, the Colorado Department of Revenue's Liquor and Tobacco Enforcement Division implemented new liquor rules to enforce SB24-231, which became law in 2024.

The Novel Foods industry is exploding. Innovative companies operating in the sustainable protein sector are growing at a rapid pace all over the world, ...

UK Government and EU Commission asking the pharma industry to comment on their proposals to make clinical trials for innovative drugs less risky and the purchase of online pharmaceuticals safer.

Lin Fengru, the 33-year-old co-founder and chief executive of Singapore biotechnology start-up TurtleTree, remembers the doubters in the investor community and their barbs when she started out.

The MHRA has executed its largest-ever seizure of unlicensed weight-loss medicines, raiding a country estate and recovering approximately 12,000 doses including retatrutide and tirzepatide. This enforcement action signals a significant escalation in criminal investigations targeting the infrastructure behind illegal medicines trade, raising critical questions about regulatory compliance and criminal liability for businesses operating in the weight-loss, aesthetics and wellness sectors.

In the UK, a recent decision of the Patents Court highlights the importance of ensuring that applicants for supplementary protection certificates ("SPCs") file the correct fee within the time permitted...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of investigating the use of known medications for the treatment of new diseases. Given the long road to clinical approval for new drugs...

Sustainability is becoming more and more critical for businesses across all markets, nowhere more so than in Food & Drink. High packaging volumes, increased consumer awareness...

As of January 1, 2025, the Colorado Department of Revenue's Liquor and Tobacco Enforcement Division implemented new liquor rules to enforce SB24-231, which became law in 2024.

The last few years have seen major reforms to the regulation of packaging in the EU and the UK which affect all businesses...

On 26 April 2023, the European Commission finally published its proposed amendments to the regulatory framework governing medicinal products in the EU.

In November 2003, the European Commission issued a proposal for a Regulation on the addition of vitamins and minerals to foods (the "proposed Regulation"). The aim of the proposed Regulation is to regulate the voluntary addition of vitamins and minerals to foods in order to promote the free circulation of such foods in the EU and at the same time to provide a high level of protection for consumers.

There is much uncertainty over what will occur when the UK officially leaves the EU at 11pm on 29 March 2019 (Exit Day

European patent law offers extra protection for pharmaceuticals that is not available for medical devices.

In this update, our pharma sector competition law experts in Brussels, the UK, Germany, South Africa and China look at a number of recent competition law developments of impact to the sector.

The UK food and drink industry is one of the most valuable sectors to the UK economy; with 13.6% of employment in the UK in food, drink, agriculture, or farming and £1 trillion in annual sales across the sector.

Pharmacogenetics is the name given to the study of inter-individual variations in our DNA and how these can affect our individual responses to pharmaceutical drugs. A more individualised understanding of how drugs affect different people has the potential to promise a future of personalised medicine based on an analysis of our individual genotype where toxic side effects of drugs are greatly reduced and drugs even have a guarantee of efficacy. This article aims to summarise the current status of