The indemnity fund would protect pharmaceutical companies developing new drugs that might subsequently turn out to have side-effects, but need to be licensed urgently.
"A new concern here," Mr. Gobelli said, "is that we are getting demands to protect pharmaceutical laboratories against theft of key ingredients that drug gangs can use".
"Companies are finding new ways to be aggressive about protecting pharmaceutical monopolies that haven't been in past free trade agreements," said Peter Maybarduk, the global access to medicines program director at Public Citizen.
Just as bad, India does not yet fully protect pharmaceutical patents, which makes drug firms understandably nervous.Then there is the ticklish issue of multinationals testing drugs in a poor country.
Bentonite desiccants have been successfully used to protect pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and diagnostic products from moisture degradation and extend shelf life.
Leaked documents of the TPP included provisions which protect pharmaceutical monopolies and delay the release of cheaper drugs in Australia.
Here's a story about the Trump administration threatening the rest of the world in order to protect pharmaceutical companies from a resolution that would encourage universal breast-feeding, which would prevent 800,000 child deaths a year.
But as the young medical students who recently protested in front of her office told her staff, access to these lifesaving drugs for their patients is far more important than protecting pharmaceutical monopolies.
[CBC August 6] Commenters were suspicious about why the government was protecting pharmaceutical companies from legal recourse in the event of deleterious outcomes from the vaccine.
The same year a new national Intellectual Property Law (9279/96) sanctioned the government obligation to grant patents to protect pharmaceutical companies' right to exclusively manufacture registered drugs, limiting the possibility for local laboratories to produce lower-cost versions of ARVs under patent [ 22].
"We're telling the rest of the world to have high minimum standards to protect software, pharmaceuticals," he said, "and we're violating minimum standards ourselves".
