The Food and Drug Authority imposed penalties on 54 establishments that violated the system of pharmaceutical and herbal preparations and establishments that did not commit to providing registered pharmaceutical preparations to the local market, did not provide a direct notification of the movement of the drug in the electronic tracking system, and did not inform the authority about an expected shortage or interruption in the supply of the company’s registered preparations during last March.
The authority stated that the inspectors monitored (22) establishments for non-compliance with providing their registered pharmaceutical products to the market, (21) establishments for failure to notify them directly (in real time) of the movement of the drug in the electronic tracking system, and (11) pharmaceutical establishments for non-compliance with reporting a case of expected shortage or interruption. In supplying the company’s registered preparations, the penalties prescribed in the Law of Establishments, Pharmaceutical and Herbal Preparations and its Implementing Regulations were imposed on them.
The Pharmaceutical and Herbal Preparations and Establishments Regulation requires factories and warehouses trading in pharmaceutical and herbal preparations to have a permanent stock sufficient for six months of all their registered preparations. These establishments must also inform the Authority in the event of an expected shortage or interruption in the supply of the company’s registered preparations for a period of not less than six months. From the expected time of supply interruption or inventory impact, while providing solutions that contribute to compensating for the shortfall.
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