{"id":133139,"date":"2024-08-20T07:35:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T04:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/german-pharmaceutical-industry-warns-of-possible-drug-shortages-from-china\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T07:35:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T04:35:41","slug":"german-pharmaceutical-industry-warns-of-possible-drug-shortages-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/german-pharmaceutical-industry-warns-of-possible-drug-shortages-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"German pharmaceutical industry warns of possible drug shortages from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133139\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Several German states have suspended trips by their quality-control inspectors to Chinese pharmaceutical companies over tightened espionage laws. The German pharmaceutical industry has warning of possible drug shortages after China tightened its espionage laws. Four out of Germany&#8217;s 16 states have now cancelled routine quality control trips to China by their inspectors as they&#8217;re concerned they could fall foul of the law.<\/p>\n<p>The states say they can no longer guarantee the safety of their inspectors on visits to Chinese pharmaceutical factories. &#8220;Some active ingredient certificates have already expired or are threatening to expire in the next few months, which will lead to a standstill in the supply chain for various drugs,&#8221; the German Pharmaceutical Industry Association warned in an article in Germany&#8217;s Pharmaceutical Newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Europe imports a high number of active pharmaceutical ingredients and antibiotics from China, which is one of the world&#8217;s largest suppliers. In Germany, almost 90 percent of all antibiotics come from China, according to the German Pharmaceutical Industry Association (BPI). All drugs made in China must meet EU quality control standards, and European inspectors have to issue certificates to confirm that the manufacturing process meets EU standards. &#8220;No one can afford additional drug shortages,&#8221; BPI spokesman Andreas Aumann told Pharmaceutical Newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to cancel trips by inspectors has been supported by the German pharmaceutical industry. &#8220;They go into the companies and look around, they take notes, they collect data and they are simply afraid of reprisals or, in the worst case, of arrests if they travel there and inspect the factories,&#8221; Dorothee Brakmann, CEO of the country&#8217;s largest pharmaceutical associations Pharma Germany, told German broadcaster Tagesschau.<\/p>\n<p>The BPI has appealed to the German government for confirmation that China&#8217;s anti-espionage law would not impact the work of German pharmaceutical auditors. But Germany&#8217;s Ministry of Health has minimised concerns for inspectors on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry, saying that even before the espionage law was tightened there had always been an element of risk due to the &#8220;unpredictable actions&#8221; of the Chinese authorities.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2024\/08\/19\/german-pharmaceutical-industry-warns-of-possible-drug-shortages-from-china\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2024\/08\/19\/german-pharmaceutical-industry-warns-of-possible-drug-shortages-from-china\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/german-pharmaceutical-industry-warns-of-possible-drug-shortages-from-china\/\">German pharmaceutical industry warns of possible drug shortages from China<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[758,555,2745,15755],"class_list":["post-133139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-csr-news-en","tag-drug","tag-shortages"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}