A pharmacy confiscated over 4 million

Illegal operations, pharmacies fined 4 million

Recently, the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration announced an administrative penalty decision.

The administrative penalty decision shows that from July to December 2019, the pharmacy client purchased 160,000 boxes of Yunnan Baiyao Capsules (specification: 0.

Next, the pharmacy client enters the above-mentioned drugs on the computer system as "outbound to the subordinate store", and then uses the computer system of the subordinate store to issue retail business invoices

In addition, the drug business method approved by the parties is a chain, and for some drugs involved, the drugstore parties do not have the corresponding first-line product information

Based on the above facts, the regulatory authority believes that the pharmacy parties directly sell the drugs to individuals and send the drugs directly from the distribution center to other provinces, and some drugs do not have the first-line product information, and the relevant records are not true, complete and traceable.

New Drug Administration Law, small violations and large penalties

The above-mentioned pharmacy fined 4 million yuan, mainly based on the large value of the drugs involved and the illegal business activities of the parties involved in the pharmacy

Article 124 of the New Drug Administration Law stipulates that, unless otherwise specified in this law, a drug business enterprise shall be given a warning if it fails to comply with the drug business quality management regulations; if it fails to make corrections within the time limit, it shall be fined 100,000 yuan to 500,000 yuan.

In addition, the legal representative, the main person in charge, the directly responsible person in charge and other responsible personnel of the pharmacy shall also confiscated the income received from the unit during the period of the illegal act, and more than 10% of the income from the premises shall be confiscated.

It can be seen that under the New Drug Administration Law, the penalties for illegal operations in retail pharmacies start at 100,000, regardless of whether the illegal activities of the pharmacy are serious or not

As with illegal operations, the illegal behavior of selling counterfeit and inferior drugs often occurs in pharmacies, and the penalties imposed by the new drug management law are still very large

According to the relevant regulations of the New Drug Administration Law:

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In summary, retail pharmacies illegally sell counterfeit drugs, starting with a fine of 1.

Punishment to people, serious can lead to life-long ban on business

It is worth noting that while the new drug administration law increases the amount of penalties, it also clarifies that "the person is punished"

In April this year, the China Judgment Document Network published information showing that 3 persons responsible for a pharmaceutical company and 1 physician were banned from business for 10 years for manufacturing and selling “counterfeit medicines” using poria, chrysanthemum and other decoction pieces of traditional Chinese medicine.

In December 2019, Chen Yonghong, deputy director of the Sichuan Provincial Food and Drug Administration, said at a presentation that the implementation of the new drug management law marked the most stringent era of drug supervision in China