An implementation plan agreed in February 2021 sets out how the European medicines regulatory network, together with the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare, will be implementing the outcome of the CHMP's review.
This includes specific measures that the network will take if nitrosamines are detected in a medicine.
EMA and national competent authorities will continue to monitor the presence of nitrosamine impurities in medicines, in co-operation with regulators from outside the European Union (EU), and will work with marketing authorisation holders to find rapid solutions to address any adverse findings....[EMA]