The Minister of Food and Drug Safety Yoo-Kyung Oh met with COVID-19 vaccine and treatment developers and relevant associations and promised support in the future.

On the 29th, the MFDS held an MFDS-Industry roundtable meeting for the COVID-19 vaccine-treatment development support.

The meeting was held to discuss the difficulties experienced by developers in conducting clinical trials and MFDS’s measures of support in situations where the development of a homegrown vaccine or treatment becomes imperative due to an epidemic.

At the event, the MFDS introduced its measures for support in commercializing such products, listened to the difficulties that the industry experienced