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Ministry of Environment to check free disposal bags.
A free disposal bag use at pharmacies will be intensively inspected by the Ministry of Environment from July 21 through the regional governments.
The free disposable bag was prohibited to use from July l this year ...
Internet review on charges for common cold to enforce as planned.
Despite a harsh backlash of the medical community, the internet review by the HIRA over the medical bills for a common cold treatment seems to be enforced from Aug. 1 this year as planned in view of its internal work ...
More imported food supplements found adulterated.
The Seoul KFDA district office found about 0,8% level of the test acceptability this year for the imported food supplements, showing a similar or slightly higher than the previous year.
The total inspection was mad...
KFDA to establish new clinical trial department
The Korea Food and Drug Administration announced that it would set up a new department being mainly responsible for clinical trials during the latter half of this year, in a bid to promote domestic clinical trials and...
Pharmacists favor two-year preservation period of prescription
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said recently that the different preservation periods of prescription in the related laws would be streamlined through consultation with the government agencies.
In response to a ...
KFDA extends internet services more to health registration.
The internet services through i-Min website having applied for all reporting works related with drugs and quasi-drugs since April this year will be gradually extended to the application for the registration process in...
New medical technology review organization to set up.
The MOHW is going to establish an organization for the new medical technology review along with the legislation of the related provisions to review its safety and efficacy, temporarily called "Authorizing standards fo...
Registration process for OTC drugs must ease to boost its markets.Mr. Lim Kyeong-mook, the chief commissioner of the OTC drug research council (Business development division manager of Dongwha Pharm. Co) said that the registration process for ...
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KFDA approves Eloxatin for stomach cancer
The Korea Food and Drug Administration recently announced the expanded approval of Eloxatin (oxaliplatin) injection developed by Sanofi-Synthelabo Inc., for the treatment of patients with irresectable and advanced sto...
Certificate marks on outer pakage to be granted.
The KFDA may allow for the duplicate drug proven of its bio-equivalency to the original one to show a certificate mark in letter or design on the outer packages in order to endorse its product credibility and to boost...
