The Drug Administration of Vietnam ( Ministry of Health ) has sent a document to the Department of Health of provinces and centrally run cities to notify about counterfeit drugs, drugs of unknown origin and handle violations.
Accordingly, the Drug Administration of Vietnam said that it had received Official Dispatch No. 942/KNTMPTP-KHTCKT dated May 27, 2025 from the Hanoi Center for Testing Drugs, Cosmetics and Food, attached with the Minutes of taking drug and cosmetic samples for quality testing dated May 12, 2025 and Analysis Certificate No. 625/KNT-25 dated May 27, 2024, reporting that the product sample with information printed on the label: DIAMICRON ® MR 60mg (Gliklazid), batch number: 23F603, Expiry date: 04.2026, did not meet the quality requirements for the Gliclazid Quantification indicator according to the Vietnamese Pharmacopoeia V - monograph Gliclazid Tablets with the result of 42.5mg/tablet (70.83% compared to the content printed on the label).
The above sample of DIAMICRON ® MR 60mg and 6 other samples taken for quality testing at Duc Anh Pharmacy under Duc Anh Pharmaceutical and Medical Equipment Company Limited - No. 08 Huynh Thuc Khang Street, Lang Thuong, Dong Da District, Hanoi all do not have information on the Circulation Registration Certificate number and/or Import License number; information on the drug manufacturing facility, drug importing facility, specifically:
- Drug name: DIAMICRON ® MR 60mg (Gliklazid), batch number: 23F603, expiry date: 04.2026.
- Drug name: Oseltamivir; batch number: M1164B01; manufacturing date: 03.2021, batch number: expiry date: 03.2023;
- Drug name: Crestor 20mg (Rosuvastatin); batch number: A23237030, expiry date: 04.2026.
- Drug name: Janumet 50/1000mg (Sitagliptin/Metformin); batch number: 24497505A, expiry date: 07/2026
- Drug name: Plavix (Klopidogrel); batch number: ELB04027, expiry date: 05/2027.
- Drug name: NEXIUM® 40mg Enterik Kapli Pellet Tablet (Esomeprazole), batch number: 23H420, expiry date: 09.2027.
- Drug name: Crestor 10mg (Rosuvastatin); batch number: A24236004, expiry date: 07.2027.
The Drug Administration of Vietnam requests the Hanoi Department of Health to urgently report to the Steering Committee 389 and coordinate with the local police, market management, Steering Committee 389 and relevant authorities to conduct inspections and checks on compliance with pharmaceutical laws of Duc Anh Pharmacy under Duc Anh Pharmaceutical and Medical Equipment Company Limited - No. 08 Huynh Thuc Khang Street, Lang Thuong, Dong Da District, Hanoi;
Trace the origin of 7 product batches without information on the GĐKLH number and/or GPNK number, the manufacturing facility, and the above-mentioned import facility; strictly handle the violating facility according to regulations; report the results of the inspection, examination, and handling to the Department of Drug Administration before June 2, 2025.
The Drug Administration of Vietnam also requested the Department of Health of provinces and centrally-run cities to communicate and inform drug trading and using establishments and people not to buy/sell or use the 7 batches of products without information on the GĐKLH number and/or GPNK number, manufacturing facility, and importing facility mentioned above; only buy and sell drugs at legal pharmaceutical business establishments; do not buy/sell drugs of unknown origin; promptly report any suspicious signs of production and trading of counterfeit drugs or drugs of unknown origin to health agencies and relevant competent agencies.
Urgently advise the People's Committees of provinces/cities to resolutely implement the opinions of the Government, the Prime Minister, the opinions of the Ministry of Health, the Department of Drug Administration, and organize a peak month to fight and prevent counterfeit drugs.
Yesterday (May 29), the Drug Administration of Vietnam (Ministry of Health) announced that it had just discovered counterfeit Theophylline Extended Release Tablets 200mg (Theophylin 200mg) - an asthma treatment drug that did not meet the quantitative standards stated on the label, only 6.3%.
Also on May 29, the Drug Administration of Vietnam informed that it had received a report from the Hanoi Center for Drug, Cosmetic and Food Testing regarding the product sample with the following information on the label: THEOPHYLLINE EXTENDEDRELEASE TABLETS 200mg (Theophylin 200mg), batch number 21127, manufacturing date February 26, 2022, expiry date February 26, 2026; place of manufacture Pharmacy Laboratories Plus; the drug sample did not have information about the GĐKLH number and/or the GPNK number, the import facility on the label.
The above drug sample was taken by the Hanoi Center for Drug, Cosmetic and Food Testing at An An Pharmacy (address: No. 153, Group 14, Kien Hung Ward, Ha Dong District, Hanoi); it did not meet the quality requirements for Theophylline Quantification (only 6.3% of the content stated on the label).
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