NET sale prescription medicine pharmaceutical electrical business major positive entity drugstore book boycott

Absrtact: May 28, the state Food and Drug Administration issued the "Internet Food and drug management measures (draft)", proposed that the ban prescription drug online sales, allowing Third-party logistics distribution of drugs, non-chain pharmacy enterprises or online sales of drugs. NET Sale prescription

May 28, the state Food and Drug Administration issued the "Internet Food and drug management measures (draft)", proposed the lifting of the ban prescription drug online sales, allowing the third party logistics distribution of drugs, non-chain pharmacies enterprises or online sales of drugs. The net sale prescription medicine seems to usher in the spring.

However, just last week, the head of dozens of chain pharmacies from many provinces signed a petition to the state Food and Drug Administration and the Ministry of Commerce, against the full release of the net sale of prescription drugs and the "0 threshold" online sales of drugs. At the same time, there are still many problems to be solved in selling prescription drugs.

Statements by all Parties

Major positive for pharmaceutical and electronic business

For a long time, due to the safety of drug use, the state has strict regulations on the sale of drugs on the internet, especially prescription drugs, which usually have certain toxicity or other potential effects. According to the National Food and Drug Administration in 2007 promulgated the "Drug circulation supervision and management measures": drug production, management enterprises shall not use post, internet transactions and other means of direct sales of prescription drugs to the public. In other words, even the legal drug dealers who get the Internet Drug trading Service Qualification certificate and the Internet Drug Information Service license prohibit the sale of prescription drugs.

However, since last year, Alibaba, Tencent has cross-border distribution of drug dealers. This April, the deputy director of the state Food and Drug Administration, Yin, went to Guangdong to investigate the supervision and development of medical and pharmaceutical dealers, and for the first time discussed opening some prescription drug online sales and online health insurance consumption. And just one months later, the quick release of the draft was a surprise for the traditional medicine industry.

China Merchants Securities Research Report pointed out that the prescription drug online sales will expand the power market capacity, the current prescription drugs accounted for about 80% of the total pharmaceutical market, pharmaceutical manufacturers are expected to increase at least 100 billion market volume.

"This is good news for us and policy barriers are breaking down." "China's largest pharmaceutical electric business, Kyushu Tong, a good pharmacist online pharmacy deputy general manager Li Yaifen told reporters. However, in the opinion of Wang Wei, secretary general of China's over-the-counter drug association, the draft has no legal effect and is of limited practical interest to the market.

Entity Drugstore book boycott

A letter is being sent to the State administration of Drug Administration and the Ministry of Commerce at the time of the drug dealers ' struggling to lay out their online sales platform.

Participating in the joint petition of the main Chinese medicine under the National Pharmacy, the people of large pharmacies, such as dozens of chain pharmacies, as well as China Pharmaceutical Business Association, China Pharmaceutical Materials Association, and other nearly 10 countries, local-level industry associations. "In the past, the online ban on prescription drugs, if the policy is open, only a single pharmacy can apply for online sales of prescription drug licences, and allow the third party logistics distribution of drugs." This is a disaster for physical pharmacies. The common people big Pharmacy chairman Cheziron told the reporter.

"Prescription drugs have very strong toxic side effects, our country is a wide range of antibiotic abuse in the country, 0 threshold to open the net sale of prescription drugs will make rational use of drugs is difficult to protect." Cheziron said that the online pharmacy illegal cost is very low, coupled with the online pharmacy territorial jurisdiction, its scope of business can spread all over the country, which greatly exacerbated the difficulty of supervision and supervision workload. If the online pharmacy to reduce access requirements, will lead to the Internet counterfeit drug flooding.

The cause of the collective book of Chain Pharmacy is also the impact of the new deal on the real pharmacy. Yunnan Head of the church said, under the existing policy, the entity pharmacies must pass the new version of GSP certification requirements stringent, in addition to the drug storage, transport conditions are strict, physical pharmacies must also be equipped with pharmaceutical professionals counseling patients with medication. Online sales of prescription drugs once the ban, the loose Internet pharmacies to the physical pharmacy is very unfair, or will bring online vicious competition, through 20 years before the establishment of the drug retail network across the urban and rural areas will be destroyed.

There are problems

Is counterfeit drugs rampant?

"Regulation of the new deal to reduce the internet to sell drugs on the threshold of access to a number of illegal online shop has the opportunity to put on the legal identity of the cloak, and ordinary consumers simply can not identify the operation of the site is legitimate, so that the counterfeit drug more hidden." "Cheziron said.

According to the reporter understand, the state Food and Drug Administration in July 2013 has launched the "two dozen two build" special action, close the illegal sale of drug sites near thousands, but there are still some sites desperate, online sales counterfeit drug repeatedly banned.

Can distribution be reliable?

According to the draft, online pharmacies "can entrust the logistics and distribution enterprises to store and transport drugs." The previous "Internet drug trading Services approval interim provisions" pointed out that the pharmaceutical dealers must have a GSP certification of the drug delivery system, strictly speaking, third party logistics is not allowed to participate in drug delivery.

Drugs on the storage and transport conditions are strict, "now professional drug wholesale companies can not fully protect the transport conditions, let alone ordinary Express company." "Hunan Yi Feng da pharmacy Chairman Gao said.

According to people familiar with the situation, the net sale prescription drugs will not suddenly release all categories, the use and transport process security more secure varieties will be given priority to open.