The market and the possibilities of biopharmaceuticals industry in Brazil

Abstract

ABSTRACT
In the last decade, the production of biopharmaceuticals is a major pharmaceutical company's strategy around the world. The challenge for the Brazilian State and national pharmaceutical organizations participate in this booming segment and with important effects on public policies for medicines. The information on the thread are dispersed, so the article's objectives are to describe the market in Brazil and point the main debates on the insertion of the domestic industry in the production of products of biotechnology base. The article methodology consisted in compiling the information scattered in various places of public and private institutions and organization of subjects considered relevant to understanding of the market and its controversies. The study showed that the legal, scientific and regulatory controversies surrounding the national production of biopharmaceuticals is based on the contention for a big potential market formed by the Government procurement and organization strategies.