In the pharmaceutical industry the Pharmacovigilance service has the task of gathering all information regarding the safety of the active principles of the medicines it is responsible for, from their authorization to their launch on the market (AIC) to improve the way of using them and reduce, where possible, the risk of side effects.
To this end the Pharmacovigilance service gathers and analyzes all reports of adverse reactions spontaneously provided and passes them on to the competent authorities in order to supply them with information needed to safeguard the health of patients.