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When faced with what to pack their kids for school lunches, parents are 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 faced with a variety of novelty items that seem marketed directly to kid ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug. Examples of combination products may in s. From yogurt that glows in the dark to “fruit strips” that are actuall lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together. y made of sugar, it becomes more and more difficult to provide kids with here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe a healthy lunch that they will actually want to eat. However, improper d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations. Combination pro school lunches can have a drastic effect on the development of childhood 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 obesity and future health. It is therefore important that parents are a 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 ware of the problem of obesity and improper diet. A lot of “fun foods” nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically are marked to kids these days. The packaging is often colorful, as are t 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 he language and graphics – sometimes even the food itself performs trick ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi that are irresistible to kids. Cereal that turns milk blue, instant oat ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it. Following aspects would a meal that hatches dinosaur eggs – all cute tricks employed by the market dd to the challenges in developing combination products: Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well? Which combination prod ers of the food industry that might gross adults out, but which kids can cts are meaningful and rational? Which therapeutic categories to select? Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients? Do combin ’t resist. Rather than steering clear of fun food altogether, keep in m tions increase the patient compliance? What would be the developing cost? How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen ind that not all of it is necessarily bad for your kids. But in a countr 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 that is struggling with an epidemic of childhood obesity, it is always ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality. Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust wise to read the labels on the products to see what you are actually buy y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products ing your son or daughter before. For example, some fruit strips are made . 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 out of real fruit – while others are full of sugar. It is hard to tell elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements. Companies that provide selfless information through particip which brand is better without reading the nutritional labels on the back 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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