Introduction

For the purposes of this volume, the resulting products from all of the efforts

of this sector of the global economy include drugs (pharmaceuticals, biolo-

gicals, vaccines and so forth), medical devices, and diagnostics. All of these are

highly regulated both during their development and marketing. Though

many of the service organizations referred to in this volume also do work for

other industries, our focus will be on the more limited pharmaceutical and

medical device industrial sector.