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New checks for medicine fraud
By Cai Wenjun |
January 5, 2009, Monday
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THE Shanghai Food and Drug Administration is carrying out a citywide check on drugstores selling health tonics with similar names to genuine medicines. Misleading customers like this is prohibited by a new law announced by the state drug authority.
Drugstores must now establish strict management systems and keep comprehensive records of all products sold including non-pharmaceutical health tonics, cosmetics and household products like shampoo. All records must be kept for at least two years for government monitoring. Previously, only medicines had to be recorded this way.
Pharmacies will also have to give each customer sales receipts with detailed information including the name of the product, the quantity, the price and the producer.
The State Food and Drug Administration says it is trying to get non-pharmaceutical health tonics out of drugstores to regulate the management of the shops and combat the illegal use of non-pharmaceutical products that imitate genuine medicines.
Officials from the city's FDA said they will follow the state authority's rules and carefully check drugstores.
"We have just received the rules from the state administration and have launched checks for illegal health tonics in the city," said Wang Yan from the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration yesterday. "The new rules will tighten the management of drugstores."
Drugstores must now establish strict management systems and keep comprehensive records of all products sold including non-pharmaceutical health tonics, cosmetics and household products like shampoo. All records must be kept for at least two years for government monitoring. Previously, only medicines had to be recorded this way.
Pharmacies will also have to give each customer sales receipts with detailed information including the name of the product, the quantity, the price and the producer.
The State Food and Drug Administration says it is trying to get non-pharmaceutical health tonics out of drugstores to regulate the management of the shops and combat the illegal use of non-pharmaceutical products that imitate genuine medicines.
Officials from the city's FDA said they will follow the state authority's rules and carefully check drugstores.
"We have just received the rules from the state administration and have launched checks for illegal health tonics in the city," said Wang Yan from the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration yesterday. "The new rules will tighten the management of drugstores."
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