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Richard Lowenthal

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

and be a backup site for the United States in case there's any issues that occur at our New Jersey site.

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

But otherwise, we are not significantly affected by tariffs.

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

We have a few of our ingredients that come from Europe, but the tariff is fairly minimal and those are fairly minor components of the product.

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

Of course, for other companies, it may be quite dramatic, especially if products are coming out of China or India.

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

I'm not as savvy on whether there's any exemptions being given for some of these, but if you can imagine a lot of the generic products coming out of India, that those companies would be under significant pressure to move those products to the United States in order to avoid those tariffs.

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So that would be...

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

quite a large impact on them.

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

But at least for ARS Pharmaceuticals and Nephi, we're in very good shape.

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

We decided to manufacture in the US at a facility we're very comfortable with and has a lot of experience assembling this device and manufacturing other products like Narcan.

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So we just decided to stay with a facility we're very comfortable with that we know is very reliable.

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

Well, and actually, given the situation around tariffs, serendipity is always the best friend you can have.

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

First of all, there is not many manufacturers that can assemble this device very well.

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

At the time we started this program, there were only a few, and they're all in the United States.

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

And there was only one that had a lot of commercial experience.

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

And that's the one we had worked with with Narcan.

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

And also, we actually moved Valtoco there after approval.

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So we actually went with that manufacturer just because we knew them very well.

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

They're very advanced in the ability to manufacture this product.

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So they can manufacture very, very high capacity quantities of the product at very high speed.

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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

And they're the most proven manufacturer of this product in the world.

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