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Legislation for hazardous product control under move.
To enhance the administrative control on other hazardous products than foods and drugs, the KFDA now tries to enact "The Hazardous Product Safety Control Law".
The targeted items are hazardous products to human bod...
Ban on drug advertising related with PPA ingredient
The KPMA's Preview Committee for Pharmaceutical Advertising notified all member companies not to do any drug advertising by quoting PPA (Phenylpropanolamine: a sympathomimetic agent) ingredient, which is found in doze...
Current major issues reached to agreement in tripartite meeting.
The 3 way talks among the government, the medical and the pharmacy representatives began from Oct. 31 and continued 6 meetings for 12 days to discuss 12 topics including the prohibition of pharmacist's substitutive di...
Pharmacist communities called for overall adjustment over agreed issues at recent 3 way meeting.
16 chairmen from city and provincial KPAs expressed their official position over the current issues closely reached to an agreement at the tripartite meeting among the government, the medical and the pharmacy represen...
Drug industry in mingled feeling of joy and sorrow over substitutive dispensing and other issues.
The recent agreement in the 3 way talks among the government, the medical and the pharmacy representatives over the current medical reform issues seems to yield many different feelings especially in foreign multinatio...
Government, medical and pharmacy tripartite meeting closely reached accords.
In the 6th tripartite meeting on Nov. 10 many pending issues seemed to make a close agreement among the government, the medical and the pharmacy representatives, and it is therefore expected that almost 4 month long s...
Exceptional application plan for injectable drugs and elderly patients.
Minister Cha raised an exceptional application of the government's medical reform plan for injectable drugs and elderly patients during the 5th tripartite meeting on Nov. 9 and will propose it to discuss further in de...
Tripartite meeting drew far closer accord on disputed issues.
In the 5th tripartite meeting started from 6 p.m. on Nov. 9 to the next day morning at the conference hall of the MOHW, many disputed issues including the substitutive dispensing made closer agreement especially at th...
KFDA approved 215 additional substitutive dispensing drugs.
The KFDA announced to add 215 new items of drugs to the substitutive dispensing category, now the total number of substitutive dispensing drugs being 3,345 products.
The KFDA announced the substitutive dispensing d...
Revision of pharmaceutical affairs law to complete within the end of year.
On behalf of President Kim Dae-jung, Prime Minister Lee Han-dong delivered the president's current policy message to the people at 11 a.m. Nov. 8 in the occasion of the National Assembly session that the President dee...
