The emc regulatory publishing tool allows you to mark products as discontinued when needed or to fully retire them and remove them from the emc.
Discontinued: A product could be marked as discontinued if it is no longer marketed/sold, however there could still be a need for patients or HCP's to access the information. In this case you would mark the product as discontinued while keeping the associated content published.
Retire: Retiring a product is when it is no longer marketed/sold and you are sure that there is no need for the information to remain available. In this case you would retire the associated SmPC and PIL, and submit to be retired (removed from the emc). This is because a product without at least an SmPC or PIL cannot be listed on the emc
For help with marking a product as discontinued please see 'How to Discontinue a product' and 'Discontinue Vs Retire' help pages.
To retire a product and remove it from the emc you must retire the associated content such as SmPC and PIL.
To do this, go into your 'All Products' page via the left-side menu
Select 'update' on the relevant Product Group
Select 'Retire' on each of the content that is associated to that Product Group such as the SmPC and PIL (a product cannot be retired whilst it still has a published SmPC or PIL)
Add the reason for the retirement from the drop-down menu that appears
Review your request and save the changes
You will be taken back to the product group management page where your content will now show as draft status
From here you can either undo this retirement if needed, by clicking the 'Remove' button
Or you can proceed with this retirement by clicking 'Continue'
You will be taken to the submission summary page where you can review and confirm the changes you have selected
Press 'Submit' to retire the product from emc or click 'Cancel' to return to the dashboard
Please Note 📝
Retiring a product will remove it instantly from the emc website
The ability for you to re-instate/un-retire a product is coming soon in publisher; if you require a product to be re-instated/un-retired please contact us on the email below, advising of the reason for this and we can get that actioned for you.
If you have any questions please contact us servicedesk@datapharm.com