Shanghai Municipal Drug Modern Logistics Guidance released

The Shanghai Food and Drug Administration issued the "Guiding Opinions on Modern Pharmaceutical Logistics in Shanghai" to accelerate the development of modern pharmaceutical logistics, optimize resource allocation, promote the scale and standardization of pharmaceutical business enterprises, form an efficient and professional modern pharmaceutical logistics system, and ensure the supply guarantee of pharmaceuticals and the quality of pharmaceutical products in the distribution process. The new opinions apply to newly established pharmaceutical wholesale enterprises in this city and pharmaceutical wholesale enterprises engaged in entrusted storage and transportation of pharmaceuticals. These enterprises are required to establish a management system in accordance with the "Regulations on Quality Management of Pharmaceutical Business", equip facilities and equipment suitable for pharmaceutical storage and realize pharmaceutical warehousing, acceptance, transportation, shelving, sorting, and delivery, as well as independent computer information management of logistics systems. These systems should cover the quality control and information traceability of the entire process of purchasing, storing, transporting, and selling pharmaceuticals.