172 drug recall orders issued in 2011

The nation’s antitrust agency issued a total of 826 recall orders last year and among them, drug (including oriental medicines) related recalls violating the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law accounted for 20.8 percent to 172 cases.

Of the medicines recall cases last year, there were 30 voluntary withdrawals and 142 other recall orders, up 6 cases from 166 cases in 2010. The number of recall orders...