Our study showed that 976 protocols were approved in one year by half of the French RECs and that median approval time ranges from 16 days (if no modification) to 48 days.
That process, he said, was instituted in the 1990s to reduce the agency's workload and speed approval time.
Today, the average drug approval time has dropped to 12 months, from about 30 months before the law was passed.
"If he is facing a 24 month approval time in a suburb versus a 12 month approval in an urban area, he is likely to choose the latter".
Scale was one reason for the long approval time: At 230 acres, Civita is one of the country's largest examples of "urban infill," which is the development of vacant or underused city sites.
The price of AZT came down; the approval time for drugs shrank; the government expanded its original narrow definition of AIDS, opening the way for many more people to qualify for help.
The industry, which has been outspoken in its frustration over past delays, has said it hopes the new administration can reduce by half the approval time for major pipeline projects, which now averages 18 to 24 months.
Some figure makers estimate that scanning has helped reduce the approval time from months to weeks, which helps account for the proliferation of action figures and figurines just before or after related movies are released.
A freshman assemblyman from Queens, Michael N. Gianaris, a Democrat who sponsored the bill, said the bill would encourage power producers with old plants to rebuild with new technology, cutting approval time from a year to six months.
In the pharmaceutical industry, narrower patents with less detailed descriptions allowed applicants to reduce the approval time by 10.8% (170 days).
