	On Nov. 1, 2016, TraceLink announced the launch of an early access program for a European Union-hosted Life Sciences Cloud. The cloud will be available to TraceLink customers and trading partners in February 2017. With data residency in both the EU and United States, global customers can utilize TraceLink’s network-tenant platform approach to reduce the time, cost, and risk of achieving regulatory compliance for global requirements, including the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD), and eliminate the need to verify and certify point-to-point connections to each government system.

	As the industry prepares for the 2019 deadline for the EU FMD, the need for greater vigilance around drug-product security in the EU has become increasingly crucial in light of recent drug counterfeiting incidents. In Europe, counterfeit medicine accounts for an estimated industry loss of approximately €10 billion (approximately $11.04) in annual revenues and direct employment losses of approximately 38,000 jobs, according to a recent 

 TraceLink’s Life Sciences Cloud is used by 444 customers and 242,000 partners on the global network. The cloud provides security for drug products that are manufactured, packaged, sold, and dispensed in the EU.

	European data residency for the Life Sciences Cloud will be hosted by Amazon Web Services and deployed in Germany across multiple availability zones designed to automatically route serialized data feeds to the appropriate global region.

	With offices in the United Kingdom, India, Singapore, and the US, 69% of TraceLink’s current pharmaceutical and contract manufacturing customers have compliance requirements for the EU (EU FMD), as well as other regions, including India, Brazil, China, South Korea, Turkey, Argentina, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.

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TraceLink launched the EU-hosted early access program to reduce the time, cost, and risk of achieving regulatory compliance for global requirements.