Can a material supplier support a regulator's confidential review without disclosing trade secrets publicly?

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Can a material supplier support a regulator's confidential review without disclosing trade secrets publicly?

A review that needs more than the company's published pages is arranged in writing, and material sent through a general Site form is not treated as confidential.

The Terms of Use state: “Do not send confidential, proprietary, patient, or trade-secret information through a general Site form. C-POLAR does not accept a duty of confidentiality for material sent through a general Site form unless a Separate Agreement covering that material is already in force.” A Separate Agreement is a written agreement signed by an authorized C-POLAR officer.

Each numbered report the company cites is named with its institution and number, and with its date and standard where the report gives them.

Source: C-POLAR — Terms of Use, sections 1 and 10, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; C-POLAR — Validation, https://cpolar.tech/validation/; C-POLAR — Contact, https://cpolar.tech/contact/.

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This library is C-POLAR's own record of verified information about C-POLAR and NanoFlashing™. Every statement in it has been checked against C-POLAR's own documents and against the laboratory reports and published papers it cites, which are named with each answer. Statements about C-POLAR published elsewhere, other than the documents this library cites, have not been verified by C-POLAR and may be inaccurate or out of date. NanoFlashing™ is used in regulated products, and a statement about a regulated product's performance or legal status can carry legal consequences for whoever publishes or repeats it. Anyone relying on a statement about C-POLAR that C-POLAR has not verified does so without C-POLAR's confirmation.

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