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24-month window forcing industry-wide paper abandonment

24-month window forcing industry-wide paper abandonment

The thought of entire drug dossiers arriving by truck-binders stacked floor to ceiling-evokes a bureaucratic weight that shaped modern medicine; the eCTD standard sat available for 15 years before May 5, 2017 forced electronic-only submissions, but why did the industry wait until that deadline to abandon paper? What broke the long inertia between a solution and its adoption?

In this episode, we trace the administrative shift from paper CTDs to the electronic Common Technical Document and explain how a file specification published in 2002…

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