How to Expedite Customs Clearance for Clinical Trial Imports
With various moving parts and deadlines, expediting customs clearance is essential to your clinical trial supply chain.
Time is precious, especially in the case of clinical trials. It’s not just a matter of making sure the trial starts on time but also ensuring that all the commodities are at the site, all the correct documentation is up to date, and the proper authorizations have been given. All in all, this is a gargantuan task. With various moving parts and tight deadlines, having a partner that is able to expedite the customs clearance process for your clinical trial commodities is essential to your supply chain.
Tight Deadlines
Meeting the Site Invitation Visit (SIV) date is the most crucial of all the deadlines in a clinical trial. This is the date the site is approved to commence the study.
All pre-study compliance, such as ethics approval, must be given for this to happen. Also, all the commodities required for that study must be present at the site. This includes any investigational product (IP) and ancillary equipment (non-IP). Again, this must be in the correct volumes required for the study.
What is Done During an SIV Checklist?
The Unique Challenge
A leading global Sponsor reached out to TecEx Medical to assist with a time-sensitive shipment.
Printed patient materials needed to be sent to the clinical trial site from the United States to Canada. However, the biopharmaceutical company was still awaiting ethics approval, and the SIV date was only weeks away.
As one of their numerous and concurrent clinical trial studies occurring across the globe, the Sponsor was under immense pressure to get these materials to the site on time.
Time Crunch For a Clinical Trial
With the rapidly approaching SIV date, the TecEx Medical team, with oversight from the Sponsor, immediately began the process by directly reaching out to the vendor involved.
TecEx Medical liaised with this vendor to obtain outstanding information for customs approval. This was done so that the materials could quickly be shipped once the ethics approval was granted.
In-country teams were also put on standby to ensure seamless customs clearance when the goods were ready to ship.
Expedited Customs Clearance
TecEx Medical has the knowledge to provide risk-free import and customs compliance solutions to Contract Manufacturing Organizations, Contract Research Organizations, Sponsors, and Vendors in the clinical trial space.
Key Takeaways
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