FDA Matters. (a) As to each of the product candidates of each of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including compounds currently under research and/or development by the Company and subject to the jurisdiction of the FDA or any equivalent Governmental Authority in any legal jurisdiction other than the U.S. (each such product, a “Company Regulated Product”), such Company Regulated Product is being researched, investigated, developed, manufactured, packaged, labeled, stored, distributed, imported and exported, and tested in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Laws. To the extent that any Company Regulated Product involves the use of a radioisotope, the Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with respect to the applicable Laws governing such isotopes. (b) The Company and its Subsidiaries hold, directly or by virtue of its agreements with its vendors, all required Permits to research, investigate, develop, manufacture, package, label, store, distribute, and test each Company Regulated Product and any radioisotope thereof and no such Permit has been revoked, withdrawn, suspended, cancelled or terminated or modified in any adverse manner. To the Knowledge of the Company, there is no basis for believing that any such Permit will not be renewable upon expiration. The Company and its Subsidiaries are, to the extent applicable, in compliance in all material respects with such Permits and have not received any written notice or other written communication, or to the Knowledge of the Company, any other communication from any Governmental Authority regarding (i) any material violation of or failure to comply materially with any term or requirement of any Permit or (ii) any revocation, withdrawal, suspension, cancellation, termination or material modification of any Permit. No Action is pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened, which seeks to revoke, limit, suspend, or materially modify any such Permit. (c) There are no Actions pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to an alleged material violation of the FDCA or any similar Law administered or promulgated by any FDA-equivalent Governmental Authority in any legal jurisdiction other than the U.S. None of the Company, its Subsidiaries or their respective officers or employees has been or is subject to any enforcement Actions by the FDA or other Governmental Authority and, to the Knowledge of the Company, no such Actions have been threatened. There is not any Form FDA-483 observation, civil, criminal or administrative Action, demand letter, warning letter or untitled letter pending or in effect against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective officers or employees, and the Company and its Subsidiaries have no liability for failure to comply with the FDCA or other similar Laws. There is no act, omission, event, or circumstance of which the Company has Knowledge that would reasonably be expected to give rise to or form the basis for any civil, criminal or administrative Action, demand letter, warning letter, untitled letter or request for information or any Liability for failure to comply with the FDCA or other similar Laws. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any written notice that the FDA or any other Governmental Authority has commenced, or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened in writing to initiate, any action to enjoin the manufacture and production of the Company Regulated Products or any component thereof at any of its or its suppliers’ facilities. (d) All preclinical studies and clinical trials, and other studies and tests of any Company Regulated Product conducted by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries have been, and if still pending are being, conducted in material compliance, to the extent applicable with the applicable protocol for such study or trial, good laboratory practices, good clinical practices and all applicable Laws, including the FDCA and its implementing regulations governing good laboratory practices and good clinical practices (e.g., 21 C.F.R. Parts 50, 54, 56, and 312 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations) and the respective counterparts thereof outside the United States. No clinical trial conducted by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has been terminated or placed on full or partial clinical hold by the FDA or by the applicable Institutional Review Board (“IRB”) for safety reasons or otherwise prior to scheduled completion, and neither the FDA, an IRB nor any other applicable Governmental Authority, clinical investigator that has participated or is participating in, or institutional review board that has or has had jurisdiction over, a clinical trial conducted by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has initiated, or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened to initiate, any action to place a full or partial clinical hold order on, or otherwise terminate or suspend, any proposed or ongoing clinical investigation of the Company Regulated Products conducted or proposed to be conducted by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. (e) All manufacturing operations conducted by or for the benefit of the Company and its Subsidiaries have been and are being conducted in material compliance with applicable Laws, including provisions of the FDA’s current good manufacturing practice regulations and comparable regulatory requirements of foreign Governmental Authorities. The Company and its Subsidiaries have established and maintain a quality agreement with each of the third party vendors that manufacture, process, package, or supply ingredients and packaging materials for or distribute the Company Regulated Products. The Company and its Subsidiaries, and to the Company’s Knowledge their respective third party vendors, have filed all required notices, registration applications, order forms, reports, supplemental applications and annual or other reports or documents, including adverse experience reports, that are material to the continued development, handling, manufacture, sale, and distribution of the Company Regulated Products. No supplier or manufacturing site for any Company Regulated Product (whether owned by the Company and its Subsidiaries or that of a contract manufacturer) has been subject to a Governmental Authority (including FDA) shutdown or import or export prohibition, nor received and not closed out any FDA Form 483 or any other Governmental Authority notice of inspectional observations, “warning letters,” “untitled letters” or similar correspondence or notice from the FDA or other Governmental Authority. (f) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has made any untrue statement of a material fact or fraudulent statement to the FDA or any Governmental Authority or otherwise failed to disclose a material fact required to be disclosed to the FDA or any Governmental Authority. The Company and its Subsidiaries are not the subject of any pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened investigation in respect of any Company Regulated Product pursuant to the FDA’s “Fraud, Untrue Statements of Material Facts, Bribery, and Illegal Gratuities” Final Policy or FDA’s Application Integrity Policy. All documents and information filed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with the FDA or any other Governmental Authority with respect to the Company Regulated Products, or the manufacturing, handling, storage or shipment of the Company Regulated Products were, at the time of filing, true, complete and accurate in all material respects. (g) None of the Company, its Subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers, directors, or employees has been, is, or is in anticipation of being (based on a conviction by the courts or a finding of fault by a regulatory authority): (i) debarred pursuant to the Generic Drug Enforcement Act of 1992 (21 U.S.C. § 335a), as amended from time to time; (ii) disqualified from participating in clinical trials pursuant to 21 C.F.R. §312.70, as amended from time to time; (iii) disqualified as a testing facility under 21 C.F.R. Part 58, Subpart K, as amended from time to time; (iv) excluded, debarred or suspended from or otherwise ineligible to participate in a “Federal Health Care Program” as that term is defined in 42 U.S.C. 1320a-7b(f), including under 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7 or relevant regulations in 42 C.F.R. Part 1001; (v) assessed or threatened with assessment of civil money penalties pursuant to 42 C.F.R. Part 1003; or (vi) included on the HHS/OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities, the General Services Administration’s System for Award Management, or the FDA Debarment List or the FDA Disqualified/Restricted List. None of the Company, its Subsidiaries or any of their respective officers, directors or employees has engaged in any activities that are prohibited, or are cause for civil penalties, or grounds for mandatory or permissive exclusion, debarment, or suspension pursuant to any of these authorities. The Company and its Subsidiaries are not using, nor have they ever used, in any capacity any person that has ever been, or to the Knowledge of the Company, is the subject of an Action that could lead to the persons becoming debarred, excluded, disqualified, restricted or suspended pursuant to any of these authorities. (h) Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries have materially complied with all applicable Laws relating to patient, medical or individual health information, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended (“HIPAA”), and the standards for the privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information at 45 C.F.R. Parts 160 and 164, Subparts A and E, the standards for the protection of Electronic Protected Health Information set forth at 45 C.F.R. Part 160 and 45 C.F.R. Part 164, Subpart A and Subpart C, the standards for transactions and code sets used in electronic transactions at 45 C.F.R. Part 160, Subpart A and Part 162, and the standards for Breach Notification for Unsecured Protected Health Information at 45 C.F.R. Part 164, Subpart D, all as amended from time to time. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries have entered into, where required, and are in compliance in all material respects with the terms of all Business Associate Agreements (as defined in HIPAA) to which Company or any Subsidiary is a party or otherwise bound. Company and its Subsidiaries where required, have (i) created and maintained written policies and procedures to protect the privacy of Protected Health Information (as defined in HIPAA) in its possession or control, (ii) provided training to all employees and agents, and (iii) implemented security procedures, including physical, technical and administrative safeguards, to protect all Protected Health Information stored or transmitted in electronic form. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received written notice from the Office for Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or any other Governmental Authority alleging a failure to comply with HIPAA or any other federal or state law or regulation applicable to the protection of individually identifiable health information or personally identifiable information. To the Knowledge of the Company, there has been no Breach (as defined in HIPAA) of Unsecured Protected Health Information (as defined in HIPAA), unpermitted disclosure of Personal Health Information (as defined in HIPAA), or breach of personally identifiable information with respect to information maintained or transmitted to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that would require notice to a Governmental Authority. All capitalized terms in Section 4.11(h) not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings set forth under HIPAA.
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FDA Matters. Except where noncompliance with FDA Laws would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and except as listed in Section 3.24 of the Company Disclosure Schedule:
(a) As The Company and its subsidiaries have been operated at all times in compliance with all FDA Laws applicable to each of the product candidates of each of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including compounds currently under research and/or development by the Company and subject to the jurisdiction of the FDA or any equivalent Governmental Authority in any legal jurisdiction other than the U.S. (each such product, a “Company Regulated Product”), such Company Regulated Product is being researched, investigated, developed, manufactured, packaged, labeled, stored, distributed, imported and exported, and tested in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Laws. To the extent that any Company Regulated Product involves the use of a radioisotope, the Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with respect to the applicable Laws governing such isotopessubsidiaries.
(b) The Company and its Subsidiaries hold, directly or by virtue each of its agreements with subsidiaries has all Registrations from the FDA or any Foreign Regulatory Entity required to conduct its vendors, all required Permits to research, investigate, develop, manufacture, package, label, store, distribute, business as currently conducted. Each such Registration is valid and test each Company Regulated Product subsisting in full force and any radioisotope thereof and no such Permit has been revoked, withdrawn, suspended, cancelled or terminated or modified in any adverse mannereffect. To the Knowledge Company’s knowledge, neither the FDA nor any Foreign Regulatory Entity is considering limiting in any respect, suspending, or revoking any such Registrations or changing in any respect the marketing classification or labeling of any Company products. To the Company’s knowledge, there is no basis for believing that false or misleading information or omission in any such Permit will not be renewable upon expirationRegistration, product application or other submission to the FDA or any Foreign Regulatory Entity. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries aresubsidiaries has fulfilled and performed its obligations under each Registration, to and no event has occurred or condition or state of facts exists which would constitute a breach or default or would cause revocation or termination of any such Registration. To the extent applicable, in compliance in all material respects with such Permits and have not received any written notice or other written communication, or to the Knowledge knowledge of the Company, any other communication from any Governmental Authority regarding (i) any material violation of third party that is a manufacturer or failure to comply materially with any term or requirement of any Permit or (ii) any revocation, withdrawal, suspension, cancellation, termination or material modification of any Permit. No Action is pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened, which seeks to revoke, limit, suspend, or materially modify any such Permit.
(c) There are no Actions pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened against contractor for the Company or any of its Subsidiaries subsidiaries is in compliance with respect to an alleged material violation of the FDCA or any similar Law administered or promulgated by any FDA-equivalent Governmental Authority in any legal jurisdiction other than the U.S. None of the Company, its Subsidiaries or their respective officers or employees has been or is subject to any enforcement Actions by all applicable Registrations from the FDA or other Governmental Authority and, any Foreign Regulatory Entity insofar as they pertain to the Knowledge manufacture of the Company, no such Actions have been threatened. There is not any Form FDA-483 observation, civil, criminal product components or administrative Action, demand letter, warning letter or untitled letter pending or in effect against product for the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective officers or employees, and the Company and its Subsidiaries have no liability for failure to comply with the FDCA or other similar Laws. There is no act, omission, event, or circumstance of which the Company has Knowledge that would reasonably be expected to give rise to or form the basis for any civil, criminal or administrative Action, demand letter, warning letter, untitled letter or request for information or any Liability for failure to comply with the FDCA or other similar Laws. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any written notice that the FDA or any other Governmental Authority has commenced, or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened in writing to initiate, any action to enjoin the manufacture and production of the Company Regulated Products or any component thereof at any of its or its suppliers’ facilitiessubsidiaries.
(dc) All preclinical studies and clinical trialsproducts developed, and other studies and tests of any Company Regulated Product conducted tested, investigated, manufactured, distributed, marketed or sold by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries subsidiaries that are subject to the jurisdiction of the FDA or Foreign Regulatory Entity have beenbeen and are being developed, tested, investigated, manufactured, distributed, marketed or sold in compliance with FDA Laws or any other applicable laws, including those regarding clinical research, registration and listing, premarket notification (510(k) clearance), premarket approval, good manufacturing practices and quality systems, labeling, advertising, promotion, import and export, adverse event reporting, and if still pending recalls, including corrections and removals.
(d) Since December 31, 2007, the Company and its subsidiaries (i) have not received any Form FDA-483, notice of adverse finding, warning letter, notice of violation, untitled letter, or notice of import detention or refusal from FDA or similar communications from, any Foreign Regulatory Entity, (ii) are beingnot subject to any obligation arising under an administrative or regulatory action, conducted in material complianceFDA inspection, FDA warning letter, FDA notice of violation, or other notice, or response or commitment made to the extent applicable or with the applicable protocol for FDA, or any Foreign Regulatory Entity and (iii) have made all notifications, submissions, and reports required by any such study or trialobligation, good laboratory practices, good clinical practices and all applicable Lawssuch notifications, including the FDCA submissions and its implementing regulations governing good laboratory practices reports were true, complete and good clinical practices (e.g., 21 C.F.R. Parts 50, 54, 56, and 312 correct in all material respects as of the U.S. Code date of Federal Regulationssubmission to FDA or any Foreign Regulatory Entity.
(e) and Since December 31, 2007, none of the respective counterparts thereof outside the United States. No clinical trial conducted by or on behalf products of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries subsidiaries has been terminated or placed on full or partial clinical hold by the FDA or by the applicable Institutional Review Board (“IRB”) for safety reasons or otherwise prior to scheduled completionseized, and neither the FDA, an IRB nor any other applicable Governmental Authority, clinical investigator that has participated or is participating indetained, or institutional review board that has or has had jurisdiction oversubject to a suspension of manufacturing, a clinical trial conducted by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has initiated, or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened to initiate, any action to place a full or partial clinical hold order ondistribution, or otherwise terminate or suspend, any proposed or ongoing clinical investigation of the Company Regulated Products conducted or proposed to be conducted by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(e) All manufacturing operations conducted by or for the benefit of the Company and its Subsidiaries have been and are being conducted in material compliance with applicable Laws, including provisions of the FDA’s current good manufacturing practice regulations and comparable regulatory requirements of foreign Governmental Authorities. The Company and its Subsidiaries have established and maintain a quality agreement with each of the third party vendors that manufacture, process, package, or supply ingredients and packaging materials for or distribute the Company Regulated Products. The Company and its Subsidiariesmarketing, and to the Company’s Knowledge their respective third party vendorsknowledge, have filed all required noticesthere are no facts or circumstances that would be reasonably likely to cause (i) the seizure, registration applicationsdetention, order formsor suspension of manufacturing, reportsdistribution, supplemental applications and annual or other reports marketing of any such product, (ii) a change in the labeling or documentsclassification of any such product or (iii) a termination, including adverse experience reports, that are material to the continued development, handling, manufacture, sale, and distribution seizure or suspension of the Company Regulated Products. No supplier or manufacturing site for marketing of any Company Regulated Product (whether owned by the Company and its Subsidiaries or that of a contract manufacturer) has been subject to a Governmental Authority (including FDA) shutdown or import or export prohibition, nor received and not closed out any FDA Form 483 or any other Governmental Authority notice of inspectional observations, “warning letters,” “untitled letters” or similar correspondence or notice from the FDA or other Governmental Authoritysuch product.
(f) Neither the Company Company, any of its subsidiaries nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any of their respective employees or agents has committed any act, made any statement or failed to make any statement that would reasonably be expected to provide a basis for the FDA to invoke its policy with respect to “Fraud, Untrue Statements of Material Facts, Bribery and Illegal Gratuities” set forth in 56 Fed. Reg. 46191 (September 10, 1991) and any amendments thereto. Neither the Company, any of its subsidiaries, nor any of its Subsidiaries their respective employees or agents, has made any an untrue statement of a material fact or fraudulent statement to the FDA or any other Governmental Authority Entity with respect to any product tested, manufactured, distributed, marketed or otherwise sold by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or failed to disclose a material fact required to be disclosed to the FDA or any Governmental Authority. The Company and its Subsidiaries are not Entity or has ever been investigated by the subject FDA, National Institutes of any pending orHealth, to the Knowledge Office of the CompanyInspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services, threatened investigation in respect Department of any Company Regulated Product pursuant to the FDA’s “Fraud, Untrue Statements of Material Facts, Bribery, and Illegal Gratuities” Final Policy Justice or FDA’s Application Integrity Policy. All documents and information filed by other comparable governmental authority for data or healthcare program fraud.
(g) Neither the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with the FDA or any other Governmental Authority with respect subsidiaries nor, to the Company Regulated Products, or the manufacturing, handling, storage or shipment of the Company Regulated Products were, at the time of filing, true, complete and accurate in all material respects.
(g) None knowledge of the Company, its Subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers, directors, officers or key employees has been, is, been convicted of any crime or is in anticipation of being (based on a conviction by the courts or a finding of fault by a regulatory authority): (i) debarred pursuant to the Generic Drug Enforcement Act of 1992 (21 U.S.C. § 335a), as amended from time to time; (ii) disqualified from participating in clinical trials pursuant to 21 C.F.R. §312.70, as amended from time to time; (iii) disqualified as a testing facility under 21 C.F.R. Part 58, Subpart K, as amended from time to time; (iv) excluded, debarred or suspended from or otherwise ineligible to participate in a “Federal Health Care Program” as that term is defined in 42 U.S.C. 1320a-7b(f), including under 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7 or relevant regulations in 42 C.F.R. Part 1001; (v) assessed or threatened with assessment of civil money penalties pursuant to 42 C.F.R. Part 1003; or (vi) included on the HHS/OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities, the General Services Administration’s System for Award Management, or the FDA Debarment List or the FDA Disqualified/Restricted List. None of the Company, its Subsidiaries or any of their respective officers, directors or employees has engaged in any activities conduct that are prohibited, or are cause for civil penalties, or grounds for mandatory or permissive exclusion, debarment, or suspension pursuant would reasonably be expected to any of these authorities. The Company and its Subsidiaries are not using, nor have they ever used, result in any capacity any person that has ever been, or to the Knowledge of the Company, is the subject of an Action that could lead to the persons becoming debarred, excluded, disqualified, restricted or suspended pursuant to any of these authorities.
(h) Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries have materially complied with all applicable Laws relating to patient, medical or individual health information, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended (“HIPAA”), and the standards for the privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information at 45 C.F.R. Parts 160 and 164, Subparts A and E, the standards for the protection of Electronic Protected Health Information set forth at 45 C.F.R. Part 160 and 45 C.F.R. Part 164, Subpart A and Subpart C, the standards for transactions and code sets used in electronic transactions at 45 C.F.R. Part 160, Subpart A and Part 162, and the standards for Breach Notification for Unsecured Protected Health Information at 45 C.F.R. Part 164, Subpart D, all as amended from time to time. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries have entered into, where required, and are in compliance in all material respects with the terms of all Business Associate Agreements (as defined in HIPAA) to which Company debarment under 21 U.S.C. Section 335a or any Subsidiary is a party or otherwise bound. Company and its Subsidiaries where required, have (i) created and maintained written policies and procedures to protect the privacy of Protected Health Information (as defined in HIPAA) in its possession or control, (ii) provided training to all employees and agents, and (iii) implemented security procedures, including physical, technical and administrative safeguards, to protect all Protected Health Information stored or transmitted in electronic form. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received written notice from the Office for Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or any other Governmental Authority alleging a failure to comply with HIPAA or any other federal or similar state law or regulation applicable to the protection of individually identifiable health information or personally identifiable information. To the Knowledge of the Company, there has been no Breach (as defined in HIPAA) of Unsecured Protected Health Information (as defined in HIPAA), unpermitted disclosure of Personal Health Information (as defined in HIPAA), or breach of personally identifiable information with respect to information maintained or transmitted to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that would require notice to a Governmental Authority. All capitalized terms in Section 4.11(h) not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings set forth under HIPAAforeign law.
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FDA Matters. Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect: (ai) As to each of the product candidates of each of the Company and each of its SubsidiariesSubsidiaries is and has been in compliance with statutes, including compounds currently under research and/or development by laws, ordinances, rules and regulations applicable to the Company and subject to the jurisdiction of the FDA or any equivalent Governmental Authority in any legal jurisdiction other than the U.S. (each such product, a “Company Regulated Product”), such Company Regulated Product is being researched, investigated, developed, manufactured, packaged, labeled, stored, distributed, imported and exported, and tested in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Laws. To the extent that any Company Regulated Product involves the use of a radioisotope, the Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with respect to for the applicable Laws governing such isotopes.
(b) The Company and its Subsidiaries holdownership, directly or by virtue of its agreements with its vendorstesting, all required Permits to research, investigate, developdevelopment, manufacture, packagepackaging, labelprocessing, storeuse, distributelabeling, and test each Company Regulated Product and any radioisotope thereof and no such Permit has been revoked, withdrawn, suspended, cancelled or terminated or modified in any adverse manner. To the Knowledge of the Company, there is no basis for believing that any such Permit will not be renewable upon expiration. The Company and its Subsidiaries are, to the extent applicable, in compliance in all material respects with such Permits and have not received any written notice or other written communicationstorage, or to the Knowledge of the Company, any other communication from any Governmental Authority regarding (i) any material violation of or failure to comply materially with any term or requirement disposal of any Permit product manufactured by or (ii) any revocation, withdrawal, suspension, cancellation, termination or material modification on behalf of any Permit. No Action is pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened, which seeks to revoke, limit, suspend, or materially modify any such Permit.
(c) There are no Actions pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to an alleged material violation of the FDCA or any similar Law administered or promulgated by any FDA-equivalent Governmental Authority in any legal jurisdiction other than the U.S. None of the Company, its Subsidiaries or their respective officers or employees has been or is subject to any enforcement Actions by the FDA or other Governmental Authority and, to the Knowledge of the Company, no such Actions have been threatened. There is not any Form FDA-483 observation, civil, criminal or administrative Action, demand letter, warning letter or untitled letter pending or in effect against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or out-licensed by the Company or any of their respective officers its Subsidiaries (a “Company Product”), including without limitation, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. § 301, et seq., the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. § 262, similar laws of other governmental entities and the regulations promulgated pursuant to such laws (collectively, “Applicable Laws”); (ii) the Company and each of its Subsidiaries possesses all licenses, certificates, approvals, authorizations, permits and supplements or employeesamendments thereto required by any such Applicable Laws and/or for the ownership of its properties or the conduct of its business as it relates to a Company Product and as described in the SEC Disclosure Documents (collectively, “Authorizations”) and such Authorizations are valid and in full force and effect and the Company and each of its Subsidiaries have no liability for failure to comply with the FDCA or other similar Laws. There is no act, omission, event, or circumstance not in violation of which the Company has Knowledge that would reasonably be expected to give rise to or form the basis for any civil, criminal or administrative Action, demand letter, warning letter, untitled letter or request for information or term of any Liability for failure to comply with the FDCA or other similar Laws. Neither such Authorizations; (iii) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any written notice that the FDA or any other Governmental Authority has commencedof adverse finding, or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened in writing to initiate, any action to enjoin the manufacture and production of the Company Regulated Products or any component thereof at any of its or its suppliers’ facilities.
(d) All preclinical studies and clinical trials, and other studies and tests of any Company Regulated Product conducted by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries have been, and if still pending are being, conducted in material compliance, to the extent applicable with the applicable protocol for such study or trial, good laboratory practices, good clinical practices and all applicable Laws, including the FDCA and its implementing regulations governing good laboratory practices and good clinical practices (e.g., 21 C.F.R. Parts 50, 54, 56, and 312 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations) and the respective counterparts thereof outside the United States. No clinical trial conducted by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has been terminated or placed on full or partial clinical hold by the FDA or by the applicable Institutional Review Board (“IRB”) for safety reasons or otherwise prior to scheduled completion, and neither the FDA, an IRB nor any other applicable Governmental Authority, clinical investigator that has participated or is participating in, or institutional review board that has or has had jurisdiction over, a clinical trial conducted by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has initiated, or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened to initiate, any action to place a full or partial clinical hold order on, or otherwise terminate or suspend, any proposed or ongoing clinical investigation of the Company Regulated Products conducted or proposed to be conducted by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(e) All manufacturing operations conducted by or for the benefit of the Company and its Subsidiaries have been and are being conducted in material compliance with applicable Laws, including provisions of the FDA’s current good manufacturing practice regulations and comparable regulatory requirements of foreign Governmental Authorities. The Company and its Subsidiaries have established and maintain a quality agreement with each of the third party vendors that manufacture, process, package, or supply ingredients and packaging materials for or distribute the Company Regulated Products. The Company and its Subsidiaries, and to the Company’s Knowledge their respective third party vendors, have filed all required notices, registration applications, order forms, reports, supplemental applications and annual warning letter or other reports or documents, including adverse experience reports, that are material to the continued development, handling, manufacture, sale, and distribution of the Company Regulated Products. No supplier or manufacturing site for any Company Regulated Product (whether owned by the Company and its Subsidiaries or that of a contract manufacturer) has been subject to a Governmental Authority (including FDA) shutdown or import or export prohibition, nor received and not closed out any FDA Form 483 or any other Governmental Authority notice of inspectional observations, “warning letters,” “untitled letters” or similar written correspondence or notice from the FDA or other Governmental Authority.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (fthe “FDA”) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has made any untrue statement of a material fact or fraudulent statement to the FDA or any Governmental Authority or otherwise failed to disclose a material fact required to be disclosed to the FDA or any Governmental Authority. The Company and its Subsidiaries are not the subject of any pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened investigation in respect of any Company Regulated Product pursuant to the FDA’s “Fraud, Untrue Statements of Material Facts, Bribery, and Illegal Gratuities” Final Policy or FDA’s Application Integrity Policy. All documents and information filed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with the FDA or any other Governmental Authority governmental entity alleging or asserting noncompliance with respect any Applicable Laws or Authorizations relating to the a Company Regulated Products, or the manufacturing, handling, storage or shipment of the Company Regulated Products were, at the time of filing, true, complete and accurate in all material respects.
(g) None of the Company, its Subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers, directors, or employees has been, is, or is in anticipation of being (based on a conviction by the courts or a finding of fault by a regulatory authority): (i) debarred pursuant to the Generic Drug Enforcement Act of 1992 (21 U.S.C. § 335a), as amended from time to time; (ii) disqualified from participating in clinical trials pursuant to 21 C.F.R. §312.70, as amended from time to time; (iii) disqualified as a testing facility under 21 C.F.R. Part 58, Subpart K, as amended from time to timeProduct; (iv) excluded, debarred or suspended from or otherwise ineligible to participate in a “Federal Health Care Program” as that term is defined in 42 U.S.C. 1320a-7b(f), including under 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7 or relevant regulations in 42 C.F.R. Part 1001; (v) assessed or threatened with assessment of civil money penalties pursuant to 42 C.F.R. Part 1003; or (vi) included on the HHS/OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities, the General Services Administration’s System for Award Management, or the FDA Debarment List or the FDA Disqualified/Restricted List. None of the Company, its Subsidiaries or any of their respective officers, directors or employees has engaged in any activities that are prohibited, or are cause for civil penalties, or grounds for mandatory or permissive exclusion, debarment, or suspension pursuant to any of these authorities. The Company and its Subsidiaries are not using, nor have they ever used, in any capacity any person that has ever been, or to the Knowledge of the Company, is the subject of an Action that could lead to the persons becoming debarred, excluded, disqualified, restricted or suspended pursuant to any of these authorities.
(h) Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries have materially complied with all applicable Laws relating to patient, medical or individual health information, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended (“HIPAA”), and the standards for the privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information at 45 C.F.R. Parts 160 and 164, Subparts A and E, the standards for the protection of Electronic Protected Health Information set forth at 45 C.F.R. Part 160 and 45 C.F.R. Part 164, Subpart A and Subpart C, the standards for transactions and code sets used in electronic transactions at 45 C.F.R. Part 160, Subpart A and Part 162, and the standards for Breach Notification for Unsecured Protected Health Information at 45 C.F.R. Part 164, Subpart D, all as amended from time to time. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries have entered into, where required, and are in compliance in all material respects with the terms of all Business Associate Agreements (as defined in HIPAA) to which Company or any Subsidiary is a party or otherwise bound. Company and its Subsidiaries where required, have (i) created and maintained written policies and procedures to protect the privacy of Protected Health Information (as defined in HIPAA) in its possession or control, (ii) provided training to all employees and agents, and (iii) implemented security procedures, including physical, technical and administrative safeguards, to protect all Protected Health Information stored or transmitted in electronic form. Neither neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received written notice of any ongoing claim, action, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other action from the Office for Civil Rights for the U.S. Department any governmental entity or third party alleging that any Company Product, operation or activity related to a Company Product is in violation of Health and Human Services any Applicable Laws or Authorizations or has any other Governmental Authority alleging a failure to comply with HIPAA knowledge that any such governmental entity or third party is considering any other federal such claim, litigation, arbitration, action, suit, investigation or state law or regulation applicable proceeding, nor, to the protection Company’s Knowledge, has there been any noncompliance with or violation of individually identifiable health information or personally identifiable information. To the Knowledge of the Company, there has been no Breach (as defined in HIPAA) of Unsecured Protected Health Information (as defined in HIPAA), unpermitted disclosure of Personal Health Information (as defined in HIPAA), or breach of personally identifiable information with respect to information maintained or transmitted to any Applicable Laws by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that would reasonably be expected to require the issuance of any such written notice or result in an investigation, corrective action, or enforcement action by the FDA or similar governmental entity with respect to a Governmental AuthorityCompany Product; (v) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received written notice that any governmental entity has taken, is taking or intends to take action to limit, suspend, modify or revoke any Authorizations or has any knowledge that any such governmental entity has threatened or is considering such action with respect to a Company Product; and (vi) the Company and each of its Subsidiaries has filed, obtained, maintained or submitted all reports, documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims, submissions and supplements or amendments as required by any Applicable Laws or Authorizations and that all such reports, documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims, submissions and supplements or amendments were complete, correct and not misleading on the date filed (or were corrected or supplemented by a subsequent submission). All capitalized terms in Section 4.11(h) not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have To the meanings set forth under HIPAACompany’s Knowledge, neither the Company nor any of Subsidiaries nor any of its or their directors, officers, employees or agents, has made, or caused the making of, any false statements on, or material omissions from, any other records or documentation prepared or maintained to comply with the requirements of the FDA or any other governmental entity.
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Sources: Securities Purchase Agreement (Madrigal Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)