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Sponsors’ Delegation Won’t Transfer Liability to CROs

July 15, 2011
Clinical trial sponsors cannot transfer potential liability to contract research organizations (CROs) by delegating certain responsibilities, a legal expert says. In the past, sponsors used CROs mainly for site monitoring and investigator recruitment, but the trend now is to outsource almost all of the trial, Elaine Tseng, a partner at King & Spalding, told an audience at a recent Food and Drug Law Institute/FDA conference.
The Food & Drug Letter