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Berita Ubat-ubatan
August 2000
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Regulatory Control Beyond 2000
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Separate Manufacturing Facilities For Cephalosporins
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Warning Label for products - NSAID
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Registration of Products Containing Insect Repellants
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Warning for Products containing Hydroquinone
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Actions To Be Taken Against Products Containing CISAPRIDE (PREPULSID)line.gif (87 bytes)
Licensing Update - June 2000
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The Changing Pharmaceutical and Traditional Medicine Premises Landscape: 1987 - 2000
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Additional Indications Approved for Registered Products
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GMP News
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Quality Control Training Course
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Sources of products registered with DCA As At 30.6.2000
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New Products Approved for Marketing in Malaysia
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NPCB officers to contact
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Clinical Trials

 line_vertical.gif (147 bytes) line1.jpg (4914 bytes) The Changing Pharmaceutical and Traditional Medicine Premises Landscape : 1987 - 2000

The landscape of licensed premises, including manufacturers, importers and wholesalers, from the time licensing was first implemented in 1987 until June 2000, is changing as depicted by the chart below. Overall, it is shown that the number of licensed premises is increasing year by year. While the newly evolved traditional manufacturing premises continue to increase steadily, the pharmaceutical manufacturing premises has shown slight contraction recently. This is mainly due to reasons such as merging of companies, downsizing to traditional medicine premises, cessation of operations due to suspensions and closures, failure to renew expired licenses and declassification of certain products as medical devices.

The total number of licensed importers also shows an increasing trend due to the implementation of licensing for traditional importers, effectively enforced from 1st January 1999.