The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA), based in Switzerland, stresses the necessity of a balanced approach to further UN Global Plastic Treaty negotiations to safeguard human health and the environment.“The pharmaceutical industry supports global efforts to agree on a UN instrument to end plastics pollution. We believe that it is possible to achieve a treaty that protects both the environment and human health,” Melchior Kuo, manager of Innovation and Vaccine Policy at IFPMA, tells Packaging Insights.