Authorities discovered counterfeit drugs - Photo: Provided by the police
According to the Deputy Prime Minister , recently, after the production and trade of fake medicines were discovered in a number of localities, the press has published many articles reflecting people's concerns and frustrations about fake medicines, raising the need to promptly and effectively handle the problem of fake medicines.
Local authorities are responsible for drug quality management.
Regarding this issue, the Deputy Prime Minister directed the Ministry of Health to preside over and coordinate with relevant ministries and agencies to urgently review and evaluate the current status of legal regulations and the situation and results of drug quality management and prevention of counterfeit drugs in recent times.
The Ministry needs to have appropriate solutions, especially regarding the responsibility of drug suppliers in complying with pharmaceutical laws. Localities must also be responsible for improving the effectiveness of drug quality management and preventing counterfeit drugs in the area. The results of this must be reported to the Prime Minister before May 5.
The Ministry of Health continues to direct the promotion and improvement of the efficiency of connecting drug supply facilities, electronic medical records, and electronic prescriptions according to the Prime Minister's instructions in previous directives.
Previously, the Deputy Prime Minister signed the Prime Minister's dispatch on handling the case of manufacturing and trading counterfeit medicines and health protection foods, requesting the Ministry of Health to closely coordinate with the Ministry of Public Security in investigating and handling the case of trading counterfeit goods.
Immediately review and recall fake drugs and fake health protection foods to promptly prevent and minimize harm to people. Strengthen control and prevention of fake drugs and fake health protection foods, inspection, and examination...
Responding to the press, Mr. Tran Huu Linh - Director of the Department of Domestic Market Management and Development (Ministry of Industry and Trade) - said that the enterprise fully implemented the procedures and business documents according to the law to cover up the violations of the product that can only be detected when it is tested. However, the product and goods have not shown any signs of violations to be able to take samples for testing.
"Through investigation, we found that these subjects had fraudulently named the products as "milk" and "medicine" but in fact the names as declared and labeled the products were "health protection foods", "supplementary foods", "formulated nutritional products", "foods for special diets"...", Mr. Linh pointed out.
Many tricks to make fake medicine
In particular, the group of subjects violating counterfeit drugs recently used new criminal methods. Specifically, the subjects did not counterfeit products circulating on the market but created their own drug names and company names, most of which had "virtual" headquarters abroad such as Malaysia, Singapore, etc.
After production, under the guise of being pharmacists selling drugs to pharmaceutical companies, these subjects use social networks to advertise and introduce "hand-carried goods". To create trust, initially these subjects mix real drugs with fake drugs before selling them on the market to deceive consumers.
In addition, the subjects rented warehouses as production sites in areas with few people passing by, dead-end alleys, deep in alleys; hired production workers who were relatives or acquaintances, mainly from other localities. During the production process, workers lived in closed warehouses, did not contact with people around to avoid, making it difficult for the supervision and inspection work of the authorities.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade said it has requested ministries and sectors currently responsible for state management of food quality, standards and safety as well as raw milk and agricultural products to provide, share or regularly notify information about enterprises that have declared their products.
At the same time, it is necessary to review and complete legal policies related to dairy products, medicines, and functional foods. Immediately build a specialized database and strengthen connections and information sharing to serve the fight against counterfeit goods.
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