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FDA Extends Pause on Non-mission-critical Domestic Surveillance inspections to February 4 – Medical Products Supply Chain Week in...

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In this week’s issue, OSHA withdrew its emergency temporary standard (ETS), which required a mandatory vaccination policy for large private employers with an exception for employers that adopt a policy requiring mandatory...more

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Medical Products Supply Chain Week in Review – July 2021 #2

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Last week, President Biden signed a comprehensive pro-competition Executive Order with various requirements affecting medical product supply chains, such as the ability to import prescription drugs from Canada and banning...more

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Biden executive order kicks off government-wide review of supply chains

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On 24 February 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) that launches an examination of America’s supply chains. See EO No. 14017, 86 Fed. Reg. 11849 (Feb. 24, 2021). The Administration’s ultimate goal is...more

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COVID-19 Medical Products Supply Chain Week in Review - March 2021 #1

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In the past week, President Biden signed the Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains, kicking off a comprehensive review of supply chain risks. Meanwhile, the FDA issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Janssen...more

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Insight: The Defense Production Act and the Biden Administration

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The Biden administration has vowed to invoke the Defense Production Act (DPA) to increase domestic production of essential supplies needed to respond to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In this Insight, we address key...more

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COVID-19 Medical Products Supply Chain Week in Review - February 2021 #2

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In the past week, both the executive and legislative branches acted to address medical product supply chain issues. President Biden further increased his vaccine supply goal, invoked the Defense Production Act (DPA) for the...more

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COVID-19 Medical Products Supply Chain Week in Review – February 2021 #1

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In the past week, the Biden Administration has kept up the pace of issuing executive actions to address the COVID-19 pandemic. The following executive actions are worth noting for their potential impact on the medical product...more

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Government’s Power to Direct Priority of Deliveries

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At the outset of the Covid-19 outbreak in this country, President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, to help combat the virus. In March and April, he issued executive orders under the powers...more

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What the Latest Executive Order Means for Federal Contractors and FDA

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The August 6, 2020, Executive Order on Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States directs the FDA and other federal agencies to take actions that could expand...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Executive Order on Essential Medicines: A Timeline and Overview of Key Provisions

On August 6, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) titled “Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States.” The far-reaching EO seeks to ensure the domestic...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

“Buy American” in the Twilight Zone: Executive Order Strengthening the U.S. Public Health Industrial Base

On August 6, 2020, President Trump signed the “Executive Order on Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States,” requiring, among other things, the U.S. government...more

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President Signs Executive Order to Ensure Essential Medical Products Are Made in the USA

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President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) on Thursday, August 6, 2020 directing federal agencies to “Buy American” when purchasing “essential” drugs, medical supplies and equipment rather than purchase these...more

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COVID-19: Pennsylvania - Executive Order on PPE and Medical Supplies

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As of April 20, 2020 there were over 32,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania. In an effort to ensure hospitals and other facilities have the personal protective equipment (“PPE”) and supplies needed to fight...more

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OFAC Issues COVID-19 Fact Sheet Regarding Humanitarian Assistance

The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”) issued an extensive Fact Sheet on April 16, 2020 regarding the provision of humanitarian assistance and trade to combat COVID-19 in compliance with...more

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Four Things to Know About Trump’s Executive Order on Hoarding of PPE

In response to the spread of COVID-19, on March 23, 2020, President Trump signed Executive Order 13910 (Order) to prevent the hoarding of health and medical resources necessary to respond to the spread of COVID-19 within the...more

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PA Governor Invokes Emergency Authority to Commandeer Critical Medical Supplies and Equipment

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On Wednesday, April 8, 2020, Governor Tom Wolf entered an emergency order (“Order”) pursuant to Sections 7301 (f) (4) and 7313 (10) of the Emergency Management Services Code that authorizes the Pennsylvania Emergency...more

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PA Gov. Orders All Health Care Providers To Report Inventory Of PPE And Certain Drugs

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In a severe act, Pennsylvania Gov. Wolf has ordered all health care providers, facilities, manufacturers, distributors and suppliers to report their inventory of personal protective equipment (PPE), certain pharmaceutical...more

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Mexican Government's Actions to Streamline the Purchase, Imports and Authorization of Health Supplies, Drugs, and Medical Devices...

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Due to the current COVID-19 outbreak in Mexico, and the corresponding force majeure health emergency that has been declared in the country, the Mexican Government´s health services and most of the health care provided by the...more

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Pennsylvania's Governor Wolf Signs Order Regarding Transfer of Supplies and Information Between Medi

Yesterday, Governor Wolf signed an order to allow the administration to transfer supplies and information between medical facilities. The order mandates that private, public, and quasi-public health care providers and...more

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COVID-19 Update: Pricing During COVID-19 Without Gouging or Fixing

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We recently blogged here about the FTC and states combating scams, price gouging and deceptive ads, and our antitrust group issued an alert on navigating antitrust issues in the wake of COVID-19. Today, we write to provide...more

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The Defense Production Act—What US Businesses Need to Know

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Using his authority under the Defense Production Act of 1950 (“DPA”), President Trump issued an Order on March 27 requiring that the General Motors Company accept and perform contracts and fulfill orders for the manufacture...more

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N.J. Order Authorizes Commandeering Of Medical Resources And Other Property

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On April 2, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy issued Executive Order 113, authorizing the New Jersey State Director of Emergency Management to use the governor’s full authority under the Disaster Control Act to commandeer personal...more

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Administration Ready to Use DPA to Address COVID-19 Shortages

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On March 18, President Trump issued an Executive Order invoking the Defense Production Act (DPA), a tool that may help the administration combat the COVID-19 pandemic. With companies like 3M, GE, and others voluntarily...more

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Executive Order prohibits hoarding of certain scarce supplies

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President Trump signed an Executive Order on Preventing Hoarding of Health and Medical Resources to Respond to the Spread of COVID-19 (EO) on March 23, 2020. The EO delegates presidential authority under the Defense...more

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COVID-19 Update: HHS implements president’s executive order to prevent medical resource hoarding

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Under President Trump’s Executive Order to prevent the hoarding of health and medical resources that are necessary to respond to the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary...more

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