Talk:Emergency Use Authorization

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EUA’s are authorized by the

(FDCA) of 1938 as amended several times subsequently by the Public Health Service Act of 1944, the Project Bioshield Act of 2004 for funding of the development and procurement of medical countermeasures against CBRN threats, the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA), the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act od 2013, the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016 and the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancement of Innovation Act (PAHPAIA) of 2019. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abelian (talk) 04:16, 07 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There are different types of EUA’s as outlined in the above Public Laws.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Abelian (talk) 04:16, 07 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect

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yea just delete it, no reason for this complicated mess over a cap character — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8806:1102:5900:515A:BB1F:2596:F22A (talk) 23:34, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This article has been tagged with {{globalize}}. This is a semi-valid concern. One one level, clearly "Emergency Use Authorization" here means the US-specific drug authorisation category, and this is the scope of the article as it stands at the moment. But on the other hand, we do need global coverage of the concept of which Emergency Use Authorization is the US implementation.

This of course brings us to the question: Does the concept have a generic name? Clearly, a generic name would be written in lowercase. And while "emergency use authori[s/z]ation" might get used to this effect in some contexts, there is a problem of ambiguity as this could just as well mean authorisation of a treatment to be administered to individuals with a medical emergency, and I can imagine that some jurisdictions may officially use the phrase with this meaning.

So I can see a few options:

• Refactor and retitle this article to be more geographically neutral
• Write a new article about the generic concept, and keep this one as being about the US-specific authorisation. Needless to say, this article would link to the new one, and the new one would include links to this and other national implementations.
• If we can't find enough information for a generic article, add links to the 'See also' section for other countries' implementations of the concept.

If, OTOH, the concept is a US invention that hasn't spread to anywhere else in the world, we will need a source confirming this.

Something else that needs to be done is to sort out the various references to EUA elsewhere on WP that clearly aren't really talking about this US-specific thing. But that's another piece of work. — Smjg (talk) 12:01, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

EUA is not just used in the US, but many drug regulatory bodies. Here is the EU definition: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_20_2390 — Chilledsunshine (talk) 03:42, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]