State Food and Drug Administration issued a network of consumer tips

In recent years, with the continuous maturity of e-commerce, China's Internet drug trade is also developing rapidly. But the network to provide convenience for consumers at the same time, but also to false medical information and counterfeit drugs to provide a great hidden space. Criminals use the network to disseminate false drug information, illegal sales of counterfeit drugs, disrupt the pharmaceutical market order, damage the people's vital interests. To this end, the State Food and Drug Administration joint a number of ministries and commissions, long-term fight against online illegal drug sales behavior, at the same time to the vast number of consumers the following tips:

1. At present, the drug regulatory authorities approved the legal sale of drugs on the Internet drug retail enterprises have 184. Detailed list can be through the State Food and Drug Administration official website (www.cfda.gov.cn) "data query" section of the query.

2. Some websites publish pharmaceutical advertisements that claim to be able to treat certain miscellaneous diseases, high-tech new drugs, cheap imported drugs, magical efficacy drugs, or the use of "drug to disease", "certainly good" and other absolute Language, the sale of these so-called "panacea" site is likely to be illegal website. And some sites, hype the sale of pharmaceutical research and development or production units, and dubbed the international, world title, like this manufacturers, institutions are mostly empty shell or bag company. In this, especially to remind consumers to see such a publicity on the Internet must be vigilant, take the initiative to verify the sale of drug sites and drug approval number, to avoid being deceived.

3. China's online sales of drugs must have food and drug regulatory authorities issued the "Internet drug trading services certificate." Where to retail consumers of individual consumers, the first should be a solid drug retail chain enterprises, in line with self-built site approval management requirements. Obtained in the online sales of qualified enterprises, should be in their own site prominently marked on the qualification certificate number for consumer inquiries to verify.

4. At present, online pharmacies can sell non-prescription drugs (that is, specify the OTC drugs), but can not sell "white plus black", "new Contac" such ephedrine-containing compound preparations, prescription drugs are more online pharmacies prohibit the sale. Sales of other health food is not a drug should comply with the relevant provisions, is strictly prohibited publicity.

5. Online sales will eventually be delivered by the door, the State Food and Drug Administration requires the delivery agent should be the pharmacy's own distribution team. Pharmacy staff door-to-door, you can also face to face pharmacy services. Drugs are special goods, storage and transportation have special requirements, the current general express delivery company's management level and conditions can not meet the quality requirements of drug delivery, courier drugs in transit risk is difficult to control, there is difficult to define the responsibility of drug quality.

6. If you buy counterfeit drugs or buy illegal drug sales website, you can report to the local food and drug regulatory authorities 12331 report, you can also call the Internet illegal and bad information reporting center report phone 12377. In addition, you can also log on the report center website to report.

7. Drugs are special goods, countries are prescription drug sales have strict management requirements, not by the local physician prescription can not be bought from the formal channels. Therefore, the online claims for foreign anti-cancer drugs and other prescription drugs, and its procurement channels are very suspicious, true and false quality of drugs without guarantee, formal online pharmacies will not set up such business. According to the local drug regulatory departments to investigate and deal with the experience of the case, online purchasing overseas anti-cancer drugs about 75% proved to be counterfeit drugs, ranging from adversely affected by the disease, while causing greater damage. Therefore, online purchasing overseas drugs is completely untrustworthy, undesirable.