State Council Cracks Down Hard on the Production and Sale of Fake Drugs and Improves the Drug Safety Regulatory System

China News Service, April 8 - The General Office of the State Council recently forwarded the "Notice on the Implementation Opinions on the 2010 Work of Correcting Unhealthy Tendencies in the Industry" issued by the State Council Office for Correcting Unhealthy Tendencies in the Industry. The notice requires cracking down hard on the production and sale of fake and substandard drugs and on non-drug products passed off as drugs, and improving the drug safety regulatory system.

The notice states: Continue to deepen efforts to address prominent food and drug safety problems. Promote the establishment of a national food safety risk monitoring and assessment system and regularly publish monitoring results; continue to carry out special rectification actions against illegal addition of non-edible substances and abuse of food additives, and seriously investigate and deal with dereliction of duty and malfeasance in food safety supervision. Deepen special rectification of drug safety and the use of the Internet and other media to publish false advertisements and sell fake drugs through mailing and other means, crack down hard on the production and sale of fake and substandard drugs and on non-drug products passed off as drugs; improve the drug safety regulatory system.