How to determine whether a drug is legally produced locally and its authenticity
The following are examples of products that Chinese customers often purchase
1. Indian drugs. It is basically impossible to determine whether Indian drugs are legal products. You can only determine whether they are products from large manufacturers. Because India is a federal country, drug approval is the responsibility of the subordinate states. Some states have query websites, while others do not. There are 10,000 pharmaceutical factories of all sizes in India, and 30 states have no way to query them. Moreover, most Indian products do not have anti-counterfeiting designs. Many small pharmaceutical factories survive by counterfeiting products from large pharmaceutical factories. The safest way to buy Indian drugs is to buy them in regular pharmacies. India can no longer copy patented new drugs after 2005. Drugs developed before 2005 have generally exceeded the patent period, and are no longer worth buying for Chinese customers.
2. Bangladeshi medicines. Bangladeshi medicines are generally more formal than those in India. There is a unified drug administration website for query. Many drugs even have registered retail prices that are quite conscientious. Please note that the registered price is calculated per piece, not per box as Chinese customers are used to. The following is a link to query the approval documents of the Bangladeshi Drug Administration. You only need to enter the English name of the drug to query. https://dgdagov.info/index.php/registered-products/allopathic
The following is a lipid-lowering drug that does not cause creatine. The English name of Bempedoic acid is Bempedoic acid. Search for it as an example
Bempedoic acid is a lipid-lowering drug. 39% of adults worldwide have high cholesterol problems, and 1 billion people need to take hyperlipidemia drugs. Mainstream statins currently have creatine problems, and Bempedoic acid has the potential to replace statins.
The products that can be searched on the approval website of the Bangladesh Drug Administration are local legal products. The international version of Avatrombopag and the Bikang version of Trelagliptin, which are popular drugs in China, cannot be found for approval, but the official website also has these products. These are only for export and cannot be legally sold in Bangladesh. Nearly half of Bangladesh's patented generic drugs, especially targeted drugs, are sold to China. There are also websites set up by distributors specifically for Chinese customers. Note that only Chinese and English are websites opened by distributors, while the factory has local languages and many other countries' languages to choose from. Many Bangladeshi targeted drugs have anti-counterfeiting, and the authenticity can be verified. After the Indian drug patent is restricted, Bangladeshi drugs have a tendency to replace Indian drugs.
3. Lao medicines. Lao patent-period generic drugs only began to develop after 2015, and it has only been ten years. The following is the Lao drug approval query link http://www.fdd.gov.la/content_en.php?contID=51. The Lao Food and Drug Administration is in line with the Lao people's procrastination in doing things. The approval data of the Food and Drug Administration is also updated once a month, and sometimes once every two or three months. This article was edited on December 30, 2024. The last update on the Food and Drug Administration website was on October 10, 2024, and it has not been updated for almost 3 months.
This update frequency may not be able to determine whether a new drug has legal approval. The number of Laotian pharmaceutical companies is generally smaller than that of Bangladesh, but most Chinese distributors selling Bangladeshi drugs have shifted to selling Laotian drugs, resulting in a decrease in the demand for Bangladeshi targeted drugs and a slower pace of new product launches. Laos can be used as an alternative to Indian drugs.