Honorable Chair, Distinguished Delegates,

The United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is an independent, scientific nonprofit organization focused on building trust in the supply of safe, quality medicines.

SF medical products cause more than one million deaths per year, waste national resources, and undermine decades of global health progress. And the problem is only getting worse.

The work of the Member State Mechanism on SF Medical Products remains as relevant as ever.

Accordingly, USP welcomes the recommendations of the independent evaluation of the MSM and strongly supports the recommendation on increasing engagement and involvement with non-State actors.

USP has been a committed partner to the MSM since its inception. Most recently, USP served on the Writing Team for the WHO Draft Guideline: Good Practices for Risk-Based Market Surveillance and Control of Medical Products by National Regulatory Authorities. We welcome more opportunities to support the important work of the MSM.

Thank you.