**3.1 Pre-workshop preparation**

Based on experience with the local legal-structural setting, desk research, and a pre-workshop survey among the workshop participants, the leadership team (Thai academic pharmacy experts with international advisors) described 11 relevant criteria, including:

• Six product quality criteria, equivalence with the reference (original) product, stability and drug formulation, product quality determined by the Certificates of Analysis (CoA) of both the finished product and the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), and the product specifications of both the finished product and the API

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• Three criteria relating to the manufacturer quality, the manufacturing standard of both the finished product and the API, as well as the reliability of drug supply, pharmacovigilance, and added value service related to the product.
