News About: Goverment
MOHW to ease rules on notification of substituted dispensing.
In the parliamentary interpellation on Feb. 28 the MOHW minister indicated that partly the prescription in generic drug names among the drugs already proven of its bio-equivalency should be implemented along with the ...
MOHW to inspect medical institutions.
The MOHW disclosed the list of 150 medical institutions and 5 subjects to inspect on March 2 as follows:
△ Inspection of the medical institutions having many diseases per patient (1Q)
△ Inspection of bills for new...
KFDA to put warning on no-smoking aids.
All no-smoking aids should show "warning" on the packages or inserted direction circulars in the future in order to protect consumer's health and any risk from its adverse reactions. The no-smoking aids include al...
KFDA to split by food and drug separately.
The government has finally determined that the current KFDA organization should be splitted into a separate activity for the food and the drug. As a result, the KFDA's food administration seems to be absorbed to the F...
A drug olympic to open on April 1 this year.
The 12th international conference of drug regulatory authorities (ICDRA), called a drug olympic, was scheduled to open at Sheraton Walker Hill hotel on coming April 1-6 and all relevant government authorities are busy...
KFDA rated local GMP pharmaceutical plants.
The KFDA rated local drug preparations by "A" class for the total 38 dosage forms produced by 15 pharmaceutical manufacturers including CKD, Dong-A, SK Chemical, LG Life Science, Schering, Janssen and Handok and "E" c...
MOHW to allow OTC drug sale at supermarkets.
The MOHW intends to allow to sell a simple non-prescription drug for the relief of fatigue and indigestion at a supermarket, and also to improve the pharmacist's formal medication advice system.
The MOHW publishe...
Sweeping wave of counterfeited drugs on markets.
No sooner than the drug industry could run out from the critical damages battered by a counterfeited Novarsc sales in the market last year, the pharmaceutical industry has met another challenge with a sweeping wave of...
Safe containers for oral liquid drugs mandatory.
Taking effects from today all oral liquid drugs should be bottled in a safe container with a measuring cup or spoon as specified by the KFDA.
The MOHW has announced the revised working rules of the pharmaceutical a...
Multinational drug corporations's drug import on the rise.
The KFDA statistics reported 4 years of drug import from 2002 to 2005 that the total 650 drugs were imported and GSK's Hepcera ranked the top place while number of drug import registrations by foreign multinational dr...
