Article: PPD Awarded U.S. Food and Drug Administration Contract to Evaluate FDA's Spontaneous Adverse Event Surveillance System.

PPD, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPDI) announced it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to evaluate the agency's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) post-market spontaneous adverse event surveillance system. The company will conduct a thorough evaluation of the value of the spontaneous adverse event reports to support safety-related regulatory actions and report its findings to the FDA and the public (see also PPD, Inc.).

The award of $2.7 million for year one, is part of a two-year project of FDA's Initiative for Maximizing the Benefit of Passive Adverse Event Collection throughout a Product's Life Cycle (IMPACT). IMPACT, ...

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