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Daewoong Pharm win ISO 14001 certification
Daewoon Pharm said its Hyangnam plant obtained its ISO 14001 certification for an ISO 14001 environmental management system from the U.S. Eagle Co., which is one of the ISO certification agencies and under the managem...
Over 800 items to complete its bio-equivalent tests by year end.
As of June 9 the total number of drugs having completed its bio-equivalency was 604, which will surpass more than 800 items by the end of this year as things are going this way.
The KFDA admitted that such a succes...
Retail pharmacy on alert to 5 year prescription preservation.
Most of retail pharmacies have not complied to keep the prescription sheets for 5 years that was provisionally required, which, eventually provoking a lot of confusions to the pharmacy circle.
According to Article...
Legislation to support oriental medicine now suspended.
A legislating attempt for the oriental medicine fostering has gone failed. The National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee took a meeting on June 19 to examine 7 bills including the law pertaining to fostering orie...
Prescription-based pharmacy management is no longer viable
Following the government's sustained cutbacks of medical treatment charges and introduction of tapering system on drug dispensing charges, the overall management deterioration of pharmacy is more pronouncing a...
Bill of new Korea Oriental Drug Administration mired
Pharmaceutical sources say that a bill designed to independently set up another Korea Oriental Drug Administration at Daegu was rejected by the National Assembly's Committee on Self-Governing Administration on June 18...
Production for small packaged drugs mandatory.
A production for small packaged drugs seems to be legally mandated for the consumers to save drug purchase costs and for the retail pharmacy to minimize idle stocks.
To this end the KFDA will have a brief meeting ...
59 additional drugs to incentive dispensing items.
The Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) announced on June 16 that 59 more drugs would be included to the incentive items for a substituted dispensing after approving their bio-equivalencies. Now, as of May 27 the t...
4 groups jointly agreed to measure against current issues.
4 medical and pharmaceutical organizations including Korea Pharmaceutical Association(KPA), Korea Medical Association(KMA), Korea Dental Medical Association(KDMA) and Korea Oriental Medical Association(KOMA) concurred...
Drug wholesalers plagued by dampened business recession
As the national economy is headed downhill with local pharmaceutical business also crumbling, the domestic wholesaling industry is preferably swifting to stable business management instead of targeting preoccupied siz...
