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HR 8905 116th Congress House

Supply Chain Security and Pharmaceutical Authentication Act of 2020

Official title: To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to reduce the threat of counterfeit drugs to the pharmaceutical supply chain, and to make the pharmaceutical … Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to reduce the threat of counterfeit drugs to the pharmaceutical supply chain, and to make the pharmaceutical supply chain more robust, while ensuring the authenticity, content, purity, and manufacturing location and batch number of drugs (including COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccines) and allowing patient verification of authenticity, and for other purposes.

Introduced: December 8, 2020 Introduced by: Van Drew, Jefferson Republican · New Jersey See on congress.gov
Health Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulationManufacturing
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Supply Chain Security and Pharmaceutical Authentication Act of 2020

This bill modifies the application of requirements for drug packaging to include certain information, such as the product's lot number and expiration date.

Under the bill, the requirements shall apply to the packaging of the smallest or individual solid oral dosage form of the product. Currently, such requirements apply to the smallest container (which might contain multiple dosages) of the product that is intended for individual sale to a dispenser, such as a pharmacy.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 8905: Supply Chain Security and Pharmaceutical Authentication Act of 2020. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-8905/
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"H.R. 8905: Supply Chain Security and Pharmaceutical Authentication Act of 2020." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-8905/.
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H.R. 8905, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-8905/.
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