News About: Goverment
KFDA to appoint local drug watch centers.
The KFDA announced on May 25 that 3 local pharmacovigilance centers, a drug watch center mainly for the drug adverse reaction cases, were appointed for collection of drug adverse reaction cases, which included SUN hos...
KFDA prosecuted 6 irregular drug wholesalers.
The Seoul district KFDA investigated 48 drug wholesalers during the first half of this year, found 6 wholesalers violation of the pharmaceutical affairs provisions including the KGSP standards and asked for due admini...
Bio equivalency tests extremely slow in April and May.
As of May, 17 the total number of drugs proven of its bio equivalency was 3,954 but the new tests showed extremely slow in April and May, which was merely 351 more drugs than the end of 2005 of 3,603.
Number of dru...
Korea joined IARC, a WHO affiliate cancer institute.
The MOHW announced that as of May 18 the IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer), an instituted affiliated to the WHO accepted Korea as a member along with India unanimously by 16 member countries at the Go...
KFDA to call for label changes on 191 drugs.
The KFDA instructed to change the label for the total 191 drugs of 6 active ingredients including an addition of adverse reactions for 174 drugs as of May 19.
6 ingredients included cimetidine single (oral and in...
Civilian medical device test institutes to raise problems.
The KFDA inspected 9 civilian medical device test institutes and found the total 65 unfair practices including 44 of the test institutes and 21 of technical documentation review institutes. However, number of unfair p...
KFDA' explanatory meeting on advanced drug review skills.
The KFDA planned a meeting at the auditorium of LG Twin building on May 30 afternoon at 1:00 p.m for the explanation of the major revised drug review provisions especially on the drug standards and assay method, which...
Bio Equivalency test scandals curbs new product registrations.
The bio equivalency test manipulation scandal has made a critical adverse impact to the drug registration, and the new registration of non-prescription drugs still kept standing still, which may aggravate more OTC mar...
NITR provides Easy Step Consulting service
The National Institute of Toxicology Research (NITR) announced that the institute would provide an easy and convenient consulting service for the technologies and informations about test animals called ESC (easy-step ...
KCDC to warn chickenpox spreading nationwide.
Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) announced that the patients infected with chickenpox reported nationwide in a growing number and therefore recommended for the people to keep individual hygiene ...
