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Imtiyaz Basade
Senior Vice President
Drug Regulatory Affairs
Mylan Laboratories Ltd
Introduction
Two big challenges faced by the drug
industry
a) declining prescription drug sales
b) losing patent protection for many
profitable drugs
Industry’s new markets – China and Africa
South African market is one of the
established markets in Africa
China forms the major part of the
pharmerging market
Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences 5/20/19 2
List of Pharmerging Countries
Tiers Countries 2009 GDP based on PPP Incremental Pharma
valuation (trillion USD) market growth from
2009-13 (billion USD)
Applicati
on
Pre-screening
(Screening number
allocation)
Screening Accepted Final
submission
Hold
Evaluation ( 24
months for
Return as innovative
Incomplete products; 12
months for
generics) of
Approval
the application
Dossier content and format checking, notification of quality test and specifications
verification, by SDA (30 days)
Acceptance by CFDA
Rejection or return Final decision by CFDA (40/20 days*) *Notes: Days before slant line
refers to timeline for ordinary
approval and that after is the
timeline for fast track approval.
All in working days.
Approval of import drug application
GMP system Chinese GMP 2010version(MOH order 79) Good Manufacturing Practice for
medicines in South Africa (2010)
DMF system DMF system is investigated butnot yet A system known as technical package is
implement. known
Contents of packaging label and The required contents are The required contents are
language described in CFDA order 24.The described in General
contents Should be written in information guideline. Contents
Chinese. should be written in English