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The critical path initiative

The Critical Path Initiative (CPI) is the Food and Drug Administration’s national strategy for modernizing the sciences through which FDA-regulated products are developed, evaluated, manufactured, and used. The Initiative was launched in March 2004 to address the steep decline in the number of innovative medical products submitted for approval, despite the enormous breakthroughs being made in biomedical science. Although initially conceived as a drive to apply discoveries in emerging areas of science and technology to medical product development, the Initiative has since expanded its scope to include all FDA-regulated products.

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The critical path initiative