Ethics & Integrity

The safety of our patients is our top priority and critical to delivering on our mission. Regeneron’s award-winning Industrial Operations and Product Supply (IOPS) organization has systems and training in place to ensure delivery of innovative and safe products. We comply with quality principles in our operations, manufacturing and distribution.

We collect product technical complaints and adverse events related to our medications so that we can monitor their safe use throughout the product lifecycle. We are committed to our responsibility for timely reporting of safety information to the U.S. FDA and other regulatory authorities, in compliance with regulations and global expectations. In order to ensure full transparency of our expectations, we provide annual training on adverse event reporting for employees, contractors and suppliers.

Patients are best served when they and their physicians are given consistent, accurate and balanced information about our medicines. Laws, regulations and industry standards govern the advertising and promotion of our products. Our policies provide clear requirements for promotional materials and communications to employees, contingent workforce and vendors who communicate with the healthcare community. Customer-facing colleagues receive annual and extensive training regarding regulations and our policies.

Regeneron is a member of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO). We endorse BIO’s principles on the responsible sharing of truthful and non-misleading information about medicines with healthcare professionals and payers. We support data transparency that advances science and medicine, protects participant privacy and is in the best interest of individuals who use our products and providers who prescribe them. We are committed to sharing data from our clinical research and clinical trials in a responsible manner. View our Clinical Trial Disclosure and Data Transparency Statement.

We are committed to and abide by all ethical requirements related to animal welfare in research, teaching and testing. All research involving the use of live animals must be approved by the Regeneron Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), a requirement of U.S. federal and state laws. The IACUC has a key oversight role, including the review and approval of animal use activities and inspection of animal facilities. In addition, we comply with the Three Rs (Replacement, Reduction and Refinement), widely accepted ethical principles that are now embedded in the conduct of animal-based science in many countries around the world. Colleagues engaged in research involving laboratory animals receive annual training in the proper care and use of these animals. Regeneron has earned accreditation from AAALAC International, a nonprofit that assesses organizations that use animals in research, teaching or testing.

We meet or exceed all Environmental, Health, Safety (EHS) and Security regulations. We have an extensive range of programs, plans and procedures to ensure the safety of all people who come to work at Regeneron. These include:

• Hazard recognition and communication
• Risk evaluation and control elements
• Workplace design and engineering
• Regulatory compliance
• Emergency preparedness and business resiliency
• Auditing
• Employee training, education and engagement

We adhere to the standards set by local occupational health and safety regulatory bodies, such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Ireland Health and Safety Authority. We undertake routine site inspections and manage our leading EHS indicators to help reduce the risk of workplace accidents. We actively encourage colleagues to report potential hazards as a preventative measure.

We engage an independent assurance provider to conduct independent verification of select EHS data. View our latest Verification Statement.

Delivering medicines to patients in a timely fashion relies on our ability to source the goods and services we need, while meeting specified standards in a sustainable, ethical and cost-effective way.

Supplier Governance and Compliance
We hold our suppliers, contract manufacturers and business collaborators to the same high ethical and labor standards to which we hold ourselves. This is reflected in our Vendor Code, which includes standards on ethics and human rights. We are also committed to continuing to provide effective training and education to our employees on all compliance matters, including training for our supply chain professionals regarding human trafficking and slavery.

Our medicines are manufactured to the highest standards of quality, and we ensure that our supply chain maintains the same level of quality. Suppliers are routinely subject to quality audits, including written audits and on-site inspections. These audits, in concert with personal engagement of management and in-person meetings during routine business operations, would allow us to identify any violations of law or conflicts with our Compliance Program. Any supplier found to use forced labor or human trafficking would be terminated from the Regeneron supply chain.

Supplier Diversity
Regeneron recognizes the value and importance of having a diverse supplier base reflective of our patients, customers, and the communities in which we live and work. We pursue diverse suppliers through our existing networks as well as external partnerships with organizations such as the National Minority Supplier Development Council and the HELIX Supplier Diversity Forum for Pharma and Medical Technology.

Suppliers and the Environment
Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions occur beyond a company’s operations and are complex to measure and manage. Supplier engagement and capacity building are critical to enhance the accuracy of our value chain emissions inventory and, ultimately, to reduce emissions. We are members of the CDP Supply Chain program, which help us to engage our suppliers to collect Scope 3 emissions data. This initiative is part of our broader effort to identify emissions reduction opportunities and advance our environmental sustainability.

Sustainable materials selection is important to our business. We actively support suppliers that offer safe, environmentally responsible products. At our facilities, these can range from low-emissions carpet and low-volatile organic compound paint to green cleaning products, environmentally friendly lab supplies and compostable tableware. If materials are not compostable, we try to select alternatives with recycled content.

Our patients, colleagues, partners and other stakeholders trust Regeneron to protect the privacy of their personal data and we treat this responsibility with the utmost seriousness. This is especially important at a company on the cutting edge of science and technology because our business and the privacy landscape are dynamic. We have established Regeneron’s data privacy philosophy to guide our people and our approach to scientific exploration and the development of our processes, medicines and services.