China’s State FDA Sees Big Challenges In Food And Drug Administration

After last year's governmental reform, China's State FDA is now responsible for supervising five kinds of public health-related products, namely, consumer food, health care products, cosmetics, drugs and medical devices. It is facing big challenges in food and drug safety supervision. Key issues include the problem of completely overhauling and standardizing the fragmented food and drug industry beleaguered with diverse small segments, varied levels of industrialization and focus. In addition, manufacturing of counterfeit drugs and sale of such medicines online to remote areas put more pressure on monitoring. However, SFDA will step up efforts to improve legislation, raise standards and tighten supervision, with special focus on investigating fake drugs posing as medicine, illegitimate additives in patented TCM and illegal drug advertisements. (Click here for more - Chinese Language)