Requests To Ease Japan's OTC Distribution Law Top Spurs Government To Action
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
TOKYO - Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's recent Pharmaceutical Law amendments, which sharply toughened over-the-counter drug distribution regulations, have drawn a plethora of requests for revisions to the amendments, the government's Regulatory Reform Council announced July 16. The Cabinet Office - Japan's executive branch - will urge MHLW to relax the new restrictions next week, Yasuhiro Ogura, a council secretariat official in charge of structural reform said July 17