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European Medicines Agency : no longer ‘the EMEA’ – and not ‘the EMA’ either

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European Medicines Agency is in the process of changing its acronym from EMEA to EMA based on the feedback from the stakeholders over the past years who had questioned the existence of the second ‘e’ in the acronym which does not accurately reflect the full name. In addition, since EMEA is most frequently used in the business community to mean Europe, Middle East and Africa , European Medicine Agency has decided not to use EMEA to avoid the confusions.

Since the inception, the adaptability of the acronym EMA is still to be validated and hence the agency decides to be using its full name as European Medicines Agency or the ‘Agency’ for short in the communications with e-mail ids being exceptions where ema will be used.

The press release from EMEA has the details of all the recent changes that the Agency has undergone and is in the process of implementaion.

Rest to follow…

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