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Shortages for human medicinal products

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The Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) provides an overview of current supply shortages for human medicinal products (excluding vaccines) in Germany. The notifications are submitted by the pharmaceutical companies and are based on the voluntary commitment to report shortages of supply-relevant medicinal products declared within the “Pharmaceutical Dialogue of the Federal Government”.

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Shortages in focus

The BfArM provides additional information on specific shortages that are of particular public interest. Those information includes recommondations of the Advisory Council on shortages as well as predictions on re-availability.

ALBVVG

Information on the German Act to Combat and Improve the Supply of Medicines (Arzneimittel-Lieferengpassbekämpfungs- und Versorgungsverbesserungsgesetz).

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Antipyretics for paediatric use

The summary provides supplemental Information on the supply situation with antipyretics for children.

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Antibiotics for paediatric use

The report provides supplemental Information on the supply situation with antibiotics mainly for the use in children.

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Supply with folinic acid containing parenteral dosage forms

The report encloses additional information on the current supply situation as well as recommondations for the mitigation of the shortage.

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Latest News

News on shortages can also be received via RSS Feed. Please take into account that information is provided in German language only

Shortage databases

Information on shortages of medicines for human use (vaccines are excludeds) in Germany can be obtained via the shortage database provided by the BfArM

Information on shortages of vaccines for human use in Germany can be obtained via the shortage database provided by the Paul Ehrlich Institute

Supply Shortages of Human Vaccines

The European medicines agency (EMA) publishes a list of shortages which are considered to affect more than one memberstate of the European Union (EU)

Shortages catalogue

Reporting shortages

Details of the report

Supply shortages are reported by the pharmaceutical companies and are based on their voluntary commitment to report supply shortages for supply-relevant medicinal products as declared in the German “Pharmaceutical Dialogue of the Federal Government”.

The report is made via the PharmNet.Bund portal of BfArM.

Details on the reporting obligations can be found at Reporting obligations.

You are not a pharmaceutical company and would like to inform us about a shortage situation? Please use our contact form.

Advisory Council for Delivery and Supply Shortages

National and European initiatives

The BfArM participates in several initiatives on national and on European level to continuously optimize the supply with medicinal products and to enhance the informal exchange between the involved stake holders.