Criteria for Censoring Pharmaceutical Advertisements

Criteria for Censoring Pharmaceutical Advertisements

Order of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and the State Food and Drug Administration [2007] No. 27

March 3, 2007

The amendments to the "Criteria for Censoring Pharmaceutical Advertisements" have been approved by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and State Food and Drug Administration, and are hereby promulgated with effect on 1 May 2007.

Zhou Baihua, Director of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce
Shao Mingli, Director of the State Food and Drug Administration

Appendix: Inspection Criteria for Releasing Pharmaceutical Advertisements
　
Article 1 The Criteria are intended to ensure that pharmaceutical advertisements are accurate, lawful and scientific.
　
Article 2 Pharmaceutical advertisements shall be released in compliance with the "Advertisement Law of the People's Republic of China", "Pharmaceutical Law of the People's Republic of China", "Regulations on Enforcing the Pharmaceutical Law of the People's Republic of China", "Anti-Unfair Competition Law of the People's Republic of China" and other relevant statutory provisions.
　
Article 3 The drugs below shall not be advertised:
1. narcotics, psychiatric drugs, medical poisons and radioactive drugs;
2. pharmaceutical preparations made by medical organizations;
3. drugs for military;
4. drugs expressed prohibited or suspended by the SF DA from manufacturing, trading or using; and
5. drugs approved to be manufactured on a trial basis.
　
Article 4 Prescriptions may be advertised on the medical or pharmaceutical journals jointly approved by the Ministry of Health and State Food and Drug Administration, but shall not be advertised on the mass medial or promoted in any other manners targeting at the public.
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