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Manufacturing standards to revise for functional health foods.
The KFDA disclosed in advance for the revised draft of "The standards and specification of functional health foods" on July 28 covering the manufacturing standards for a tablet form of functional health foods to be re...
Government to unveil 10-year pension investment plan in this November
The government plans to set out its mid- and long-term national pension investment policies as well as strategic asset distribution plans for the next ten years starting 2005 at the end of this November, the Ministry ...
Seoul KFDA to detect 131 companies committed false advertising.
Many food products have been advertised falsely as a medicine for the treatment of diseases, mostly chronic disorders like diabetic, hypertension, GI disorders, fat liver and heart diseases via internet channels.
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Drug industry to continue employment for at least 2 pharmacists.
The pharmaceutical industry has to hire at least more than 2 pharmacists so far, which shall be unchanged in the future even though the Reform and Deregulation Commission received a petition from the industry to scrap...
Extend curriculum of pharmacy college years likely to be implemented in 2009
Despite the last month's announcement from the Ministry of health and Welfare that pharmacy colleges in Korea will increase the present four-year study period to six years from the 2007 academic year, an official from...
KFDA approves Yuhan's amlodipine generic
KFDA said on July 22 it has approved Yuhan Corporation's Amlopin capsule (amlodipine maleate) for the treatment of hypertension and it is the fifth approval of amlodipine generics, following Hanmi's Amodipin (amodipin...
Government to streamline pharmaceutical affairs law
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said that its pharmaceutical research group, which was set up in October of last year, has streamlined corresponding regulations and provisions pertaining to the existing...
Lawmakers propose amendment bill for compulsory use of drug safety container and package
A total of 12 lawmakers, members of the Health and Welfare Committee, submitted on July 20 to the National Assembly an amendment bill of Pharmaceutical Affairs Law, to this effect that all drug manufacturers or import...
Pharmacists may advise discontinuance of prescribed medications.
The MOHW made it clear that it would be possible for pharmacists to advice any discontinuance of medication that was prescribed by physicians for patients, after interpreting that such a pharmacist's advice activity f...
KFDA in dispute with domestic wholesalers on KGSP policy
Friction over KGSP policy between the Korea Food and Drug Administration and the Korea Drug Wholesalers Association has surfaced after the KFDA asked the health ministry to draft a tougher regulation on wholesaler's d...
