The traceability system of medicines announced 14 days ago by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, will take effect from today, which will ensure the quality and origin of the remedies that each person consumes or uses.
The National Food, Drug and Medical Technology (An mat) ordered the system “to counter the negative impact that the unlawful drug trade poses to the health of patients and their health systems,” the agency
The provision 3683/2011, published in the Official Gazette, explains that the system will be implemented in a first stage, all those medical specialties already registered or in the future to register and containing in its composition, the active pharmaceutical ingredients (API’s).
The regulation stipulates that laboratories holding certificates of Registration of Medical Specialties should be placed in the packaging of each of the retail units, a medium capable of storing a unique code overseen and audited by the ANMAT.
It also provides that the laboratories, pharmacies and their coaches are responsible for the proper use of unique code and information attached.
Also specifies that all actors involved in the supply chain, distribution and dispensing of medicines should be able to market, having the hardware and software to capture the code that must be accompanied by the lot number, date of maturity and the code of the recipient.