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Twenty herbal medicine plants satisfy GMP standards
Thu Minh 17:18, 2015/12/26
At a meeting of the Medicine Management Department held in Hanoi on December 25, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said, twenty factories producing medicine from herbal substances met the Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) regulations set by the World Health Organisation in 2015.
According to the Medicine Management Department, the application of good practice standards has been well maintained.
The department examined all products imported by foreign companies which used to violate medicine quality rules in 2015. 

 
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The department said the pharmaceutical sector has also implemented synchronous solutions to stabilise medicine prices and the medicine market.
Addressing the meeting, Minister Tien required the pharmaceutical sector to research revisions to the existing law on pharmaceuticals and intensively deploy the national strategy for the sector’s development in the coming  time.
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