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Reply to comment by aphilsphan in When pharmaceutical companies develop new prescription drugs, do they test every method of delivery to the human body? For example, injected, orally, topically, rectally, etc? by scottyboy218
They used to be about a truckload of paper. That included a couple of copies for the reviewing agency’s convenience.
The ones I work with nowadays are around 100.000 to 1.000.000 pages as pdf.
To be honest, most of those pages are tables tabulating detailed test results (eg every single blood test taken in every study). Those are then summarized to more high level documents which are fortunately shorter.
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Reply to comment by aphilsphan in When pharmaceutical companies develop new prescription drugs, do they test every method of delivery to the human body? For example, injected, orally, topically, rectally, etc? by scottyboy218
I appreciate that story!! I’m sure the FDA must have received lots of copier drama without even knowing it.
Made me remember someone who accidentally sent their yearly development plan to the authorities in a handful of countries. Not her best working day.