State Food and Drug Administration: in the future, retail single drugstores are not allowed to sell drugs online

Source: Oct 30, 2013: in order to regulate the Internet drug sales behavior, the State Food and Drug Administration issued the notice on strengthening the Internet drug sales management yesterday, requiring retail single drugstores not to carry out online drug sales business, and at the same time, putting forward specific requirements for ephedrine containing drugs, prescription drug management and drug distribution According to the notice, pharmaceutical producing enterprises and pharmaceutical trading enterprises that conduct pharmaceutical Internet transactions on their own websites, or third-party enterprises that provide pharmaceutical Internet trading services for pharmaceutical producing enterprises and pharmaceutical trading enterprises, must apply for obtaining the qualification certificate for internet pharmaceutical trading services in accordance with the provisions before carrying out their business It is not allowed to provide drug trading services for individual consumers beyond the scope without authorization Retail single drugstores are not allowed to carry out online drug sales If any provincial food and drug administration finds any drug trading website in violation of the above provisions, it shall be investigated and dealt with seriously according to law until it is transferred to the communication administration department to close its website In addition, according to the relevant provisions of the state, drug retail chain enterprises are not allowed to display or sell ephedrine containing compound preparations to individual consumers on drug trading websites Violators will be punished to varying degrees