News About: Goverment
Bad dumplings put government on alert
Public outcry over food safety standards has pushed the government to stiffen regulations on food safety and impose harsher punishment for violators.
The government's stern measures came on June 10 when the Korea F...
KFDA approves first generic amlodipine preparations
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said on June 9 that it has approved the first generic drugs of local firms.
SK Pharm and Hanim are now in the position to manufacture Skad tab. (amlodipine maleate) and Amodi...
KFDA publishes BT report
The Korea Food and Drug Administration says it has recently published a report to facilitate efforts of those engaged in the domestic biotechnology sector, which is divided into two sections platform technology for e...
KFDA to streamline prior inspection of drug-manufacturing facilities producing functional foods
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said it will revise a guideline concerning its inspection of drug-manufacturing facilities to produce functional foods in a bid to prevent contamination by the cross production w...
KFDA revises regulations on novel salt preparations
A person who intends to obtain a manufacturing license for novel salt preparations should submit bioequivalence-tested data to the Korea Food and Drug Administration. But in the case of product approval for generic ve...
Drug identification system for capsule to take place in 2005
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said it has readjusted its implementation period of the new drug identification system for dosage forms with the following schedules: capsule form (from January 1, 2005), film-co...
Rep. Chung Eui-wha, strong candidate for chairmanship of Health and Welfare Committee
Political sources said on June 2 that Rep. Chung Eui-wha of the opposition Grand National Party (GNP) is considered to win the chairmanship of Health and Welfare in the 17th National Assembly based on the tentative ag...
Blueprint on public healthcare reform projects on the track.
MOHW set up a task force for the public healthcare reform projects and started to prepare a detailed blueprint to visualize the elective pledge committed by the Participatory Government.
A ceremony for "Public Hea...
Controversy heats up over amlodipine issue
A controversy is brewing over the approval of Pfizer's amlodipine generic versions after some media's report on the Korea Food and Drug Administration's intention to permit the omission of clinical trials on latecomer...
Drug exaggerating advertising through internet to be prosecuted.
An urgent measure should be made against the exaggerating advertising over drugs, cosmetics and foods through the internet channels.
Kwangju regional KFDA announced on May 2 that they took a special inspection over...
