News About: Goverment
National Assembly to issue on OTC drug sale at general stores.
In the parliamentary inspection to the government administration (KFDA) on Oct. 5, the subject of the OTC drug sale at other stores than pharmacies became a hot issue implicated with the drug safety in connection with...
KFDA approves amlodipine adipate
CJ Corporation said its new amlodipine adipate (brandname: Amlosta tablet) has been approved for marketing by the Korea Food and Drug Administration, based on the results of local Phase III clinical trials involving 2...
Reported ADR cases top 387 for three years, KFDA says
A total of 387 cases relating to drug adverse reaction (ADR) have been reported from related pharmaceutical firms for the past three years, according to data released by the Korea Food and Drug ...
Government urged to promote drug utilization review system
During the recent National Assembly's inspection of the Health and Welfare Ministry at the Government Complex in Kwachon, south of Seoul, two lawmakers of the main opposition Grand National Party questioned whether th...
Vioxx to be removed from market within two months
Following the September 30 announcement of Merck &. Co. to remove Vioxx (rofecoxib) from the United States and worldwide market, MSD Korea informed the Korea Food and Drug Administration of its voluntary withdrawal an...
40 pharmaceutical firms face administrative dispositions
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said that about 300 items from 40 pharmaceutical companies will be massively subject to sales suspension, as the Ministry of Health and Welfare blamed these companies for having ...
Reform to extend curriculum of pharmacy college will likely be determined at December
A research team from the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development, which has begun its operation from August 9, said it will complete the feasibility studies on the extended curriculum period of pharmacy ...
3,589 cases of individual description marks filed.
The total 3,589 cases of individual description marks were applied to the Korea Pharmacy Information Foundation from Aug. 16 to Sept. 22, comprising of 3,185 cases for drugs from 158 companies (2,739 drugs for regular...
KFDA to introduce ISO standards over PVC-derived medical instruments
The Korea Food and Drug Administration unveiled its plan to introduce the standards of International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as part of efforts to define the dissolution rate of controversial diethylhex...
Sustained type of combined drugs require bio-equivalent test.
The KFDA and KPMA took an explanatory meeting for the bio-equivalent test at the KPMA auditorium, the 4th floor of KPMA office building at 3 p.m. on Sept. 20 over the subject on the revised bill draft of "Standards fo...
