Drug Administration Department reminds: online purchase of drugs must look for website qualification

With the continuous development of e-commerce, medicines can also be purchased on the Internet to provide convenience for people to purchase medicines. However, some lawbreakers have used the Internet to promote the sale of products that claim to have treatment for diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, rheumatism, gout, sexual dysfunction, etc., in the name of fraudulent institutions, misappropriation of legitimate drug manufacturers, and serious ** patient health problems. Even life is safe. The Jinan Food and Drug Administration recently issued an early warning to remind consumers to prudently purchase drugs online.

Experts from the Drug Market Supervision Office of the Food and Drug Administration of Jinan City reminded online purchasers that they must first learn to identify legitimate online pharmacies. A legal online pharmacy must be a pharmaceutical retail chain company established in accordance with the law. After being approved by the provincial food and drug regulatory authority, it has obtained the “Internet Drug Trade Service Qualification Certificate” (service scope: providing drugs to individual consumers); The location is marked with the number of "Internet Drug Trading Service Qualification Certificate"; online pharmacies can only sell non-*** to consumers, the website has online inquiry, online consultation (practitioner pharmacist online real-time consultation), generate orders, electronic contracts and other transactions Features.

When consumers purchase drugs on the Internet, they may log on to the official website of the State Food and Drug Administration and check whether the drug purchase website is qualified to provide drugs to individual consumers by querying the "Data Query" section of the SFDA website. You can also check under this column whether the drugs passed on the website are approved by the State Food and Drug Administration. In particular, you should check the names, approval numbers, and production companies of the drugs. As of August 23, 2011, there were 42 websites approved by the food and drug regulatory authorities to provide Internet drug trading services to individual consumers.

Experts remind that medicines are a special commodity. They should go to a regular medical institution to make a definite diagnosis of the disease and purchase medicines through formal channels under the guidance of doctors or pharmacists. They must choose online medicines carefully and avoid being deceived.