The SaVi Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company (SaVipharm) held a ceremony on January 9 to receive the EU GMP Certificate and kick off construction of a high-tech R&D centre in HCM City.
Domestically-made drugs have met nearly half the demand of Vietnamese people in treatment and prevention of diseases, while the country has successfully produced 12 out of 13 types of vaccines used nationwide.
According to Decree 15/2018/ND-CP, food processing enterprises have to use good manufacturing practice standards in producing food supplements. This acts as an effective tool to address food safety.
More than 90 percent of dietary supplement producers in Vietnam have not implemented Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), according to health officials, leading to fears that without gaining GMP certificates by July next year, their production would be halted.
More and more livestock farming companies are adopting VietGap and Global Gap standards to improve their efficiency as well as ensure food safety, according to global quality certification agency Bureau Veritas.
A memorandum of understanding has been signed between Business Association of High Quality Vietnamese Products and Netherlands-based GMP+ International and Business Support and Application Services Limited Company.
Twenty factories producing medicine from herbal substances met the Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) regulations set by the World Health Organisation in 2015, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien said
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