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Sanitary management of alternative rawfoods to be strengthened
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said it will draft a guideline to strengthen the management of widely favored rawfoods as a diet or alternative food at the domestic pharmacy market, adding that the guideline ma...
KFDA to inspect quality of 2,300 drugs.
The KFDA recently announced "Basic inspection plans for drug qualities in 2004" for the quality check for more than 2,300 drugs in association with the regional KFDA offices.
The Plan reveals that the KFDA head off...
KFDA to controls against advertising of functional foods.
The KFDA announced to implement a special education and training program from Jan. 30 for the Food and Hygiene Supervisors of the head and regional offices to get skills and knowledges for the performance of special s...
647 drugs are under incentive plans for substituted dispensing.
As of the end of Dec. last year the total 647 drugs were proven of its bio-equivalency by the KFDA and therefore privileged to get incentive plans when substituted to prescription drugs according to HIRA's official an...
MOHW to publish 2003 health and welfare statistics
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said recently it has published the 2003 health and welfare statistics, salient points of which include:
1) Health and medical statistics in 2002
- Mortality per 100,000 populat...
President Roh vows to focus on BT sector for nation's better competitiveness
President Roh Moo-hyun said on January 9 that the government would take steps to nurture Korea's high value-added biotechnology industry in a bid to ensure the nation's better competitiveness and maintain advantages i...
Many psychotropic drug registrations to be self cancelled.
Quite a number of psychotropic drugs have been withdrawn out of the total 112 compounded Dextromethorpane lines that were transferred to the control drug in Oct. last year.
The KFDA reported that 34 new drugs out o...
KFDA pushes separation of manufacturing license from product license
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said in the 2004 main affairs that it has drafted a revision bill designed to separate the manufacturing license from product license in a bid to help support the industrializati...
KHIDI to review on technologies and business viability of invention.
The Korea Health Industry Development Institute (President: Lee Kyeong-ho) has been appointed by the Patent Office to be a responsible institute in assessing and reviewing the technologies of any invention and its bus...
MOHW to contemplate simultaneous implementation of 6-year western and oriental pharmacy colleges...
MOHW to contemplate simultaneous implementation of 6-year western and oriental pharmacy colleges program
Bolstered by the Health-Welfare Ministry's plan to simultaneously push for the 6-year western and oriental p...
