News About: Goverment
KT&G hiding smoking risk facts for long time.
A claim has raised now that the Korea Monopoly Agency and Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Corporation (KT&G) already well knew but suppressed to unveil the tobacco's health risk facts including the lung cancers and its intoxi...
Application for International Recognized Test Lab. filed by KFDA.
The KFDA said that an application for the International Recognised Test Laboratory of Biological Drugs under the ISE/IEC 17025 system (General requirements for the qualification of the test and rectification laborator...
Ephedra-containing oriental cold drugs in dispute
Recently, the Korea Doctors for Democratic Society claimed that a large amount of oriental cold remedies containing ephedra has been without restriction released to the market as OTC products and called on the governm...
Ex-KFDA head warning MOHW's domination on policy.
Chief Commissioner Shim Chang-goo of KFDA vindicated his resignation in the press interview on Aug. 12 as saying that for an efficient performance of the KFDA's activity as an independent agency from the MOHW, the KFD...
KFDA's Seoul Regional Agency gets good marks in public ratings
Te Seoul Regional Agency of the KFDA says it surveyed the ratings in terms of public confidence in the agency based on its telephone interview of a total of randomly selected 150 businessmen and private individuals in...
KFDA to exclude new drugs in re-examination from list of items subject to notification
The Korea Food and Drug Administration announced on August 11 that new drugs in the process of re-examination will be excluded from the list of notification items whose safety and efficacy has been already established...
MOHW to legislate relief fund for drug adverse reaction damages.
Minister Kim Keun-tae of MOHW indicated an earlier legislation move legally to establish a relief fund rapidly to compensate drug adverse reaction damages. At the same time, he intended to induce more people to take p...
Exclusive drug purchase card system under consideration.
In an attempt to enhance the drug trade quality and credit payment efficiency the MOHW is going to make a survey against the drug industries, wholesalers and medical institutions about the introduction of so called "E...
DUR system likely to be further promoted
With belated move of the Korea Food and Drug Administration to ban 75 companies from producing and selling 167 products containing phenylpropanolamine (PPA), there is a social consensus on safer use of drugs and this ...
President must unravel suspicions on national pension.
Rep. Ahn Myeong-ok of the GNP called for president Roh Moo-hyun directly to beg apologies and to explain to the people over the suspicion on the national pension that had provoked distrusts and rages to the people.
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