Pharmaceutical Dealers Welcome Major policies

Summary: The drought meets the rain. Pharmaceutical and electrical manufacturers have ushered in a major policy positive. May 28, the State administration of Food and Drug Administration announced the "Internet Food and drug management measures (draft)" (hereinafter referred to as the "draft"), the people from all walks of life to

The drought was a rain.

Pharmaceutical and electrical manufacturers have ushered in a major policy positive. May 28, the State administration of Food and Drug Administration announced the "Internet Food and drug management measures (draft)" (hereinafter referred to as the "draft"), to request feedback from all walks of life, according to the State administration of food and drug supervision, the deadline for feedback is June 27.

"The new rules on online medicine that I'm asking for advice are the most shocking one I've ever had in the online drug business." "Health Guest network CEO Su Exhibition to the China Business newspaper," said in his view, because of the "draft" and the previous domestic strict control of online pharmacy operating rules compared to a major breakthrough, clear prescription drugs can be sold online, not only to the online pharmacy practitioners feel excited, but also to the entire pharmaceutical industry will bring great shock.

Now, this good news has begun to affect the electric power and pharmaceutical enterprises of the nerves, the pharmaceutical market giant cake has been near their eyes.

Many broken ice

"In my view, the new rules in the field of online drug sales have a lot of breakthroughs, not just the prescription drug online sales of the red line Ayu this point." "I have been engaged in the field of online pharmacy industry senior personage Wang Li (alias) said," Of course, prescription drugs can be online sales is one of the most important bright spot. ”

Access to the draft, in the eighth article can see a clear formulation: Internet drug operators should be in accordance with the requirements of drug classification management, prescription sales prescription drugs, the standard, format, validity period, etc., should conform to the relevant provisions of prescription management.

"This is a sure way to sell prescription drugs through the business platform, and to define the overall direction of online sales," he said. Wang Li said.

In the middle of last year, Guoqing, director of drug and cosmetics supervision at the State Administration for Drug Administration, said the country would not release the licences of online pharmacies and would be less likely to allow prescription drugs to be sold online.

According to the state Food and Drug Administration's earlier regulations on online pharmacies, access to Internet drug licensing companies can only sell over-the-counter drugs (OTC). 2012 National Drug circulation industry total sales amounted to 1.1122 trillion yuan, but over-the-counter drug sales accounted for only a small proportion of over-the-counter drug-oriented drug retail market total sales of only 222.5 billion yuan.

The Southern Institute of Medicine and Economics (CFDA), China's drug retail monitoring and analysis system, showed that 2013 China's drug retail terminal scale of 255.8 billion yuan, an increase of 12.8%, 2007-2013 year average annual growth rate of 15.1%.

"Prescription drug sales accounted for 70% to 80% of total domestic drug sales, so the domestic prescription drug market was huge." "Wang Li said," to break through the trillion total pharmaceutical market size calculation, the total amount of prescription drugs over 800 billion yuan no problem, and the profits far higher than over-the-counter drugs, to the electricity business open, can be said to have great potential. ”

The second bright spot of the draft of soliciting opinions is the possibility of opening up the operating threshold of the online pharmacy. The draft of soliciting opinions stipulates in the seventh article, "In addition to the laws and regulations do not need to deal with the relevant license of the operating entity, the Internet food and drug operators should obtain food and drug business license or record of documents, access to food, health food, cosmetics, medical equipment production license or record certificate of enterprises We can sell the products produced by our company through the Internet. ”

China Pharmaceutical Materials Association online pharmacy branch President Longyan believes that, from these provisions, the State administration of food and drug supervision of the Internet pharmacies on the threshold requirements appear to be greatly reduced, basically can be seen as any entity pharmacies if you want to engage in online drug sales business, can do.

"According to the previous regulatory authorities on the Internet pharmacy requirements, chain pharmacies to apply for Internet drug trade license should be no problem, a single pharmacy is not, but from the new regulation, monomer pharmacies are no problem." "Longyan evaluation.

"Because when the Internet sales supervision system was set up, only drug trading license, no device trading license, which causes only medical device sales enterprises can not carry out online sales, in order to sell online, you have to sell drugs first." "A business person engaged in a retail chain of medical devices told reporters.

The person said he had been seeking online sales since 2009, but had struggled to secure an Internet drug trade license. After several years of difficulty, he sold the product to an online pharmacy through the way of being a dependant, and then sold it through the pharmacy platform. "This has increased the flow of liquidity, increased operating costs, and increased the retail price of products has greatly reduced competitiveness." ”