Selling expired drugs, illegally buying drugs... A number of pharmacies are being investigated!

"Pharmaceutical Network Industry Dynamics" Recently, Huaibei City Market Bureau released the August 2020 drug supervision and inspection monthly report.
the supervision and inspection of pharmaceutical retail enterprises, a total of 146 enterprises were inspected, of which 7 were unqualified, 7 were rectification enterprises within the time limit, and 132 were qualified enterprises. of the seven enterprises that failed the
, three pharmacies were investigated for allegedly selling expired drugs, one was warned and ordered to rectify for failing to provide purchase bills in a timely manner on the spot, and three suspected of failing to purchase drugs from drug market license holders or enterprises with qualifications for drug production and operation were investigated.
In addition, among the 7 enterprises with limited time limit rectification, 1 pharmaceutical company's sales record is not complete and ordered to be corrected; 2 are ordered to rectify because the practicing pharmacist is not on duty and do not store the medicine according to the temperature; 3 are involved in the existence of drugs not stored according to regulations (no shade cabinet), over-range operation (cosmetics), the practice pharmacist is not on duty, etc., and 1 is ordered to rectify because the Chinese medicine tablets are not cleared in time.
drugs belong to special commodities, related to human health and safety, so it is very important to ensure the quality and safety of drugs.
recent years, the industry ushered in strict regulation, but some pharmacies repeatedly make mistakes, it is worth other pharmacies wake up.
on the issue of "practicing pharmacists are not on duty", in fact, behind the reflection is also a large gap in practicing pharmacists.
According to the pharmacy classification management requirements, "a pharmacy with at least one pharmacist", but at present, there are nearly 450,000 retail pharmacies nationwide, while only 420,000 registered pharmacists, according to the state requirements for practicing pharmacists on the job, the gap between practicing pharmacists is about 600,000.
Fortunately, in response to the problem that the number of practicing pharmacists cannot meet the rigid needs of pharmacies, on August 17 this year, the State Drug Administration issued a document publicly soliciting the opinions of the Notice (Draft for Comments) on regulating the use of licensed pharmacists in pharmaceutical retail enterprises.
, it is mentioned that the provincial drug regulatory departments, without reducing the overall proportion of existing licensed pharmacists, may formulate a policy for the implementation of differentiated use of licensed pharmacists and set a transition period.
the transition period, pharmaceutical retail enterprises are allowed to equip other pharmaceutical technicians to assume the duties of practicing pharmacists in areas where there is a significant gap in practicing pharmacists, and the transition period does not exceed 2025.
in accordance with the original requirements, retail pharmacies are fully equipped with licensed pharmacists policy will be from January 1, 2021, pharmaceutical companies must be equipped with licensed pharmacists as required.
but compared to this transition period in 2025, the staffing limit for practicing pharmacists has been extended by another four years.
can say that although the wave of strict inspection of pharmacists' registration is coming, it also ushered in the good news of the extension of the limit, or will further alleviate the problem of registration.
, selling expired drugs means that selling inferior drugs is illegal.
In accordance with the relevant provisions of the new Version of the Drug Administration Law, those who produce or sell inferior drugs shall confiscate the drugs and illegal income illegally produced or sold, and shall be fined between ten times and twenty times the value of the drugs illegally produced and sold (if the value of the drugs sold illegally is less than 10,000 yuan, it shall be calculated as 10,000 yuan).
can be said that under the implementation of the new version of the Drug Administration Law, the quality requirements for drugs are becoming more and more stringent.
In accordance with the provisions, in addition to drugs beyond the expiration date can be considered inferior drugs, the content of pharmaceutical ingredients do not meet the standards, contaminated, un marked or changed the validity period, as well as batch number, unauthorized addition of preservatives or accessories, etc. can be considered inferior drugs.
For drugstore companies that sell inferior drugs, the cost of breaking the law will double to less than 100,000, which also warns pharmacy companies that they still need to operate legally in compliance with the law in order to go further, otherwise they will not be worth it.