ISLAMABAD: Pharmaceutical Evaluation and Registration Division of Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has been continuously working on the digital listing of all registered drugs to facilitate concerned stakeholders and healthcare professionals. He added that online access to this database will strengthen the regulatory system in order to eradicate unregistered, substandard, spurious, falsified and counterfeit drug products from the country. The Drug Registration Board approves the applications for registration of drugs according to the procedure laid down in the LRA (Licensing, Registering and Advertising) Rules 1976. The availability of online database containing updated information of registered drugs will help federal and provincial regulators to determine whether products that are being marketed have been approved by the Drug Registration Board. The DRAP official said that computerisation of drug registration record has also disturbed the miscreants and they are spreading disinformation.

Source: Pakistan Today January 03, 2018 18:00 UTC