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- Title
The Medicinal Phage—Regulatory Roadmap for Phage Therapy under EU Pharmaceutical Legislation.
- Authors
Faltus, Timo
- Abstract
Bacteriophage therapy is a promising approach to treating bacterial infections. Research and development of bacteriophage therapy is intensifying due to the increase in antibiotic resistance and the faltering development of new antibiotics. Bacteriophage therapy uses bacteriophages (phages), i.e., prokaryotic viruses, to specifically target and kill pathogenic bacteria. The legal handling of this type of therapy raises several questions. These include whether phage therapeutics belong to a specially regulated class of medicinal products, and which legal framework should be followed with regard to the various technical ways in which phage therapeutics can be manufactured and administered. The article shows to which class of medicinal products phage therapeutics from wild type phages and from genetically modified (designer) phages do or do not belong. Furthermore, the article explains which legal framework is relevant for the manufacture and administration of phage therapeutics, which are manufactured in advance in a uniform, patient-independent manner, and for tailor-made patient-specific phage therapeutics. For the systematically coherent, successful translation of phage therapy, the article considers pharmaceutical law and related legal areas, such as genetic engineering law. Finally, the article shows how the planned legislative revisions of Directive 2001/83/EC and Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 may affect the legal future of phage therapy.
- Subjects
BACTERIOPHAGES; BACTERIOPHAGE typing; DRUG resistance in bacteria; BACTERIAL diseases; GENETIC engineering; PATHOGENIC bacteria
- Publication
Viruses (1999-4915), 2024, Vol 16, Issue 3, p443
- ISSN
1999-4915
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/v16030443