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Intensive research on protein-based biotechnology urged
For better competitiveness in the global market Korea's protein-based biotechnology research needs to be further strengthened along with its active biopharmaceutical field showing an annual increase of 31.7% in patent...
Working Rules of Functional Health Food Act to be promulgated.
Following the promulgation of the revised working rules of the functional health food act, the KFDA announced 10 ordinances including the Review Standards for the Health Functional Food Labelling and Advertising.
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Drug industry pushing training programs for wholesaler's staffs.
The drug wholesale community complained that a drug company was attempting to train wholesaler's sales staffs with their superior position in marketing and training competence and policies.
A drug company already m...
Turnover of domestic pharmaceutical firms up 17%
The 20 major domestic pharmaceutical firms are expected to increase their combined turnover by 17.2 percent this year, according to the 2004 management strategies.
The 20 chief executive officers estimated th...
Integrated management of safety and efficacy for drugs and bioequivalence testing eyed
The Korea Food and Drug Administration has recently announced that a series of measures, such as streamlined affairs covering management of safety and efficacy for drugs and bioequivalence testing, have been finally a...
GENEDIA wins CE Marking, KGC Sang-A says
Korea Green Cross Sang-A said on February 2 that its GENEDIA HBsAg ELISA 3.0, hepatitis B surface antigen diagnostic product, received a CE marking from Germany-based TUV Product Service GmbH, known as one of the worl...
Illegal drug sales via on-line channel under special watch.
False and exaggerate drug advertising via the internet media has emerged to a critical level, causing a lot of drug abuse and misuse to consumers so seriously that the government mulls over a special and intensified i...
Jeil's TS-1 may shake whole cancer drug markets.
Jeil Pharmaceutical Co. will introduce an attractive ant-cancer drug named TS-1 formulated with 3 components such as Tegaflu, Kimeracil and Oteracil under the technical licence with Japanese Taiho who originally devel...
Domestic drug-related patent applications plunged 47% in 2002
Recent statistics showed that Korea's drug-related patents applications in 2002 toped 404 cases, down 448 cases compared with 852 cases from a year earlier, meaning that the domestic pharmaceutical business en...
Patent applications for functional health foods up
Patents for the functional health or processed foods have been increasing steadily in Korea, said a local patent attorney.
Citing the patent application trends of functional health foods outlined in recently publis...
