Post-Launch/ Pharmacovigilance
It is a regulatory requirement that companies perform safety surveillance in order to help ensure the safe use of their products by people and healthcare providers. Companies must rigorously track, report, and evaluate worldwide efficacy and adverse event information for their drug, biologic, device, and even dietary supplement and food products. These post-marketing activities are essential for helping to determine the benefit/risk profiles of products and the dissemination of labeling that fully describes their safe use by everyday consumers, patients, and healthcare providers.