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We all know that the biggest corporations in the United States outsource a lot of their production offshore. Workers in China, India, Pakistan and parts of Africa and Asi

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

a can be paid much less than local counterparts, resources may be closer at hand and economies of scale from mass production work in the favor of these suppliers. Simply

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

put, it's cheaper to ship things from the other side of the world than to make them locally.

The same principals are being used by powersellers on Ebay, it's a classic c

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

ase of buy low, sell high. The lowest prices that people can purchase items from are often found offshore. So what additional information do you need to know before you

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

et involved in this potentially lucrative practice.

Unfortunately, it's not as easy as you would hope. I interviewed a local importer prior to writing this article, and

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

he has the following story to tell of his first attempt at importing products from China.

"I had done all my research and it was finally time to buy. I choose a sel

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

ection of cheap digital products with the view to testing them all in the local market and seeing where the demand was prior to making a larger order of whatever was selli

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

ng. The total cost of all my test products was just under $1000. At this point terms like CIF and FOB were vague notions in the back of my mind. I cabled the money thro

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

gh the local bank to the bank in China. They made an error with the first transfer, attaching the fees to our end instead of the suppliers end, so they fixed that, gave m

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

e my receipt and I awaited the shipment of cameras. Luckily I had done some insisting that I be given a tracking number that allowed me to follow my products shipping thr

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

ough Asia and down to New Zealand.

The shipment stopped in Auckland where it was held in customs for an inspection - this took an extra week due to some poorly timed holi

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

days. I then had to pay an unanticipated customs clearance fee based on their spot check. To get the box from Auckland to me here in New Zealand's South Island cost near

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

y as much as my freight from China had. Needless to say I was livid. Between the customs fee and the extra shipping I had already lost half the anticipated profit on the

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

goods before they got to my door.

The day after they arrived I had started to cool down over the shipping and was moving on to sell the goods when I got a call from the

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

bank. The error in sending the wire transfer had resulted in two lots of money ending up in China. I couldn't believe banks would make such a dumb mistake. But there it

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

was. Luckily the bank had to wear the cost themselves and didn't try to pass it on to me. But the Chinese bank, while eventually acknowledging the extra cash had arrive

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

, simply refused to reimburse my local bank. Needless to say, on future shipments the process was refined and all these frustrations were sorted out. I would say I broke

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

even on dollars alone, but I lost several weeks I should have been earning in and paid a huge price in frustration"

I have to say that person now regular makes order

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

s for heavy machinery from China that are worth several hundred's of thousands of dollars, and profits approximately $1000/day from his importing business.

The moral of t

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

he story? Importing is a tricky business involving many snags and pitfalls for the inexperienced player. But if you get the formula right, it can be incredibly lucrative

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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