It's forbidden for two departments to mail prescription drugs?!

Recently, the notice of the Ministry of Commerce of the national development and Reform Commission on printing and distributing was released on the official website of the national development and Reform Commission According to the negative list of market access (2019 version), it is prohibited to carry out Internet related business activities in violation of regulations Within the scope of the General Administration of market supervision and drug administration, the negative list clearly requires that "pharmaceutical production and trading enterprises shall not directly sell prescription drugs to the public by mail or internet transaction in violation of regulations" It is worth noting that the above items are marked with ★ symbol According to the description, the items with ★ mean that they are management measures with insufficient effectiveness level and need to be listed temporarily Therefore, the legislative procedure should be improved as soon as possible "I don't think it's going to have a great impact on the opening up of prescription drugs on the Internet," a professional from a pharmaceutical research institute, who didn't want to be named, told cypress blue In this regard, he further said that the State Food and drug administration is studying and formulating the regulatory measures for online sale of drugs It is planned to carefully liberalize the online sale of prescription drugs In combination with the new drug administration law, it can be predicted that "pharmaceutical trading enterprises shall not directly sell prescription drugs through the third-party platform of drug online sale" Once the new drug administration law is officially implemented, online sale of prescription drugs will Open up, implement the principle of online and offline consistency, and communicate prescription information with medical institutions According to Article 61 of the new drug administration law, the ban on the online sale of prescription drugs has essentially been lifted On August 26 this year, the 12th session of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress voted to adopt the newly revised Drug Administration Law, which will come into force on December 1, 2019 According to Article 61 of the new version of the drug administration law, drugs under special control in the country, such as vaccines, blood products, narcotic drugs, psychotropic drugs, toxic drugs for medical use, radioactive drugs, drugs and other precursor chemicals, shall not be sold on the Internet Other drugs can be sold online, including prescription drugs not mentioned In response to the negative list of Internet related drug business activities by the national development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce, Xie bin, deputy director of chronic disease Innovation Service Research Center, said in an interview with cypress blue that he thought this was still a call to establish detailed rules and standards for online sales of prescription drugs -- after all, the circulation of prescriptions and physical objects must be supervised and traceable, and the new version of drug management The regulation of circulation in the law is unprecedented strict and should be in the same line Another vice president of the medical health Internet company, who did not want to be named, also told cypress blue that the negative list issued by the two departments should be more on the supervision At the "2019 national pharmaceutical economic information conference" held recently, Xu Shengmin, a second-class inspector of the drug regulatory department of the State Drug Administration, said that the State Drug Administration, together with the national health and Health Commission and other relevant departments, is studying and formulating the "regulatory measures for drug network sales", to regulate and guide the healthy development of drug network sales "Drug online sales adhere to the principle of" online and offline consistency ", focus on the entity behavior, implement the main responsibility of the enterprise, and ensure the quality and safety of drugs," said Xu Shengmin Another person familiar with the matter told cypress blue that "regulatory measures for drug online sales" had been submitted for review and might be released by the end of this year Fu Gang, vice president of China Pharmaceutical Business Association and chairman of Baiyang Pharmaceutical Group, previously told saibelan that he always called for the consistency of drug sales online and offline Both online and offline drug sales need to solve the four core problems of prescription source, medical insurance docking, logistics standardization and pharmaceutical service Only in this way can online and offline retail pharmacies undertake the sales of prescription drugs Historical responsibility According to the provisions of Article 52 of the new version of the drug administration law, the following conditions shall be met for engaging in drug trading activities: （1） Having pharmacists or other pharmaceutical technicians who have been qualified according to law; （2） Having business premises, equipment, storage facilities and hygienic environment suitable for the drugs handled;