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MOGAHA to disclose legislation bill for KFDA shutdown.
The Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs (MOGAHA) announced to newly legislate a bill on Sept. 22 covering a shut down of the KFDA, the drug administration activity of which should be absorbed to the...
Brand drug name prescription raising business collusion between physicians and drug makers.
The prescription in brand drug names may cause a business collusion between the drug maker and the prescribing physicians, and therefore it should be immediately abolished and changed to the prescription written in ge...
Korea's drug spending lowest in OECD
Koreans were found to have spent the least on drug expenditure among advanced countries.
The country's pharmaceutical expenditure per capita was equivalent to 49 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) in...
Council rejected production obligations for small packaged drugs.
The Deregulation Council rejected an ordinance bill raised by the KFDA, of regulating the drug industry to obligate a small packaged drug production and supply on the ground of no accordance with the Working Rules of ...
Physician to obligate answering to the prescription in question?.
The pharmacist group presumed that in one way or others the prescription in question or troubles should be appropriately clarified by the prescribing doctors under a certain legal obligation.
The Korea pharmaceutic...
Bill to describe prescription drugs in Hangul alphabet hits snag
On September 22, lawmakers of National Assembly's Health and Welfare Committee failed to reach an agreement on the description of antibiotics, steroids and psychotropic drugs in Hangul Alphabet in a prescription, as t...
Drug safety information center to be formed
With the Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) to be disbanded and its responsibilities assigned to a new and an existing agency, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said recently it is considering a new establishm...
Immediate tariff free for 65.9% of drugs under bounded tariff memorandum.
According to the FTA bounded tariff memorandum exchanged between Korea and the U. S. during the 3rd talks, the tariffs for about 65.9% of imported drugs, two third of the total subjected drugs, should be free immediat...
Korea Food and Drug Administration to be disbanded
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) will be disbanded, and instead a ministry for food safety will be set up to take charge of food safety in place of the current KFDA as part of the government's organizatio...
KFDA finally to determine Bio equivalency test review.
The KFDA finally determined that the bio equivalency tests for the total 600 drugs including 200 cases with uninterpretable data and 400 cases of no data should be reviewed after consultation with the legal experts, p...
