Posts Tagged ‘East Asia’

On August 8 2007, Guangzhou City Intermediate People's Court held criminal proceedings of a well-known counterfeit medicine manufacturing case. Five people from Qiqihar No.2 Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, were criminally charged with, "causing a major liability accident." The well-known pharmaceutical manufacturer Qiqihar No.2 Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. held a national GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice; drug production quality…

The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), China's drug watchdog, has warned the public against buying pharmaceutical products from illegal online drugstores. Those websites operators who do not obtain proper licenses from the drug administration are illegal and will be held to account, said Yan Jiangying, spokeswoman of the SFDA at a press conference in…

The government recently launched the Apotek Rakyat (People's Pharmacy) program in an attempt to provide affordable drugs and encourage pharmacists to disseminate appropriate information to the public. Head of the Indonesian Pharmacist Association (ISFI) Haryanto Dhanutirto recently spoke with The Jakarta Post's Desy Nurhayati. Question: What are the objectives of the People's Pharmacy program? Answer:…

BEIJING – Chinese police have arrested 15 members of a crime ring that made and sold fake medicines, a Chinese newspaper said on Monday amid a domestic and global confidence crisis about the country's food and drug safety. Police in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang seized more than 30,000 phials of fake vaccination medicine, including…

BEIJING — China announced Wednesday that its State Council passed a draft regulation to strengthen food safety in the wake of discoveries of toxic chemicals that prompted international bans and recalls on its exports. China, which has been working to convince the world it is serious about cracking down on dangerous and phony drugs and…

The Jakarta Police have confiscated more than 160,000 medicines that lacked distribution permits and arrested two people for allegedly distributing the drugs. Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Ketut Untung Yoga Ana said they suspected the drugs were substandard because they were not accompanied by the appropriate documentation from the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency on their…