CFDA: Taobao has no legal drugstore

2013-11-21 source: Beijing Daily: "there is no legal drugstore in Taobao, and it is not allowed to sell drugs." Li Guoqing, director of the Department of pharmaceutical and chemical supervision of the State Food and drug administration, said at the opening day of the Ministry's microblog that at present, the drug administration has not opened the examination and approval of pharmacies to sell drugs on the Internet trading platform, and it is illegal to claim that selling products is drugs Reporters yesterday in Taobao shop search "drugs", found that there are more than 3500 stores, the main products of these stores include all kinds of drugs, health products Li Guoqing said that at present, there are no legal pharmacies on Taobao, and all the sales of drugs are illegal At present, there are 129 legal online drug retail enterprises approved by the drug administration, and the online drug sales must have the qualification certificate of Internet drug trade service issued by the food and drug administration Those who retail drugs to consumers should first be drug retail chain enterprises, and then they should have their own website equipment and management capabilities, in line with the relevant approval regulations Li Guoqing said that the precondition for approving the online drugstore is to have an application from an enterprise At present, the online drug business of the online drug selling enterprises is not profitable and needs to be made up by other commodities Due to the limitation of prescription source and medical insurance reimbursement, the retail channel only accounts for 20% of China's drug sales Opening up the online sales channel does not increase the overall drug retail volume Li Guoqing said that as a special commodity, there are special requirements for the storage and transportation of drugs At present, the management level and conditions of ordinary express companies are not up to the requirements for drug distribution, so it is difficult to control the risks of drugs in the process of distribution For the consideration of drug quality assurance, the drug regulatory department is not allowed to entrust social organizations to directly distribute drugs to consumers at present The State Drug Administration requires that the drug distribution must be the distribution team of online drugstores Li Guoqing said, "in addition to effectively reducing the risk in the way of distribution, the staff of drugstores can also provide face-to-face pharmaceutical services When consumers encounter problems, they can immediately find online drugstores to protect their rights."