Lectures on Pharmacy Legislation (Lec 01)

Five Lectures on Pharmacy Legislation of Hong Kong were organized by the Department of Health and the Pharmaceutical Society of Hong Kong started on 16 April 2010.

Lecture 1 (16 April 2010):
Classification of Poisons
Labelling of Poisons and Pharmaceutical Products


The summary of Lecture 1 were shown as follows.
Laws concerned the following ordinances.
- Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance (Cap. 138) – PPO
- Antibiotics Ordinance (Cap. 137) – AO
- Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134) – DDO
- Undesirable Medical Advertisements Ordinance (Cap. 231) – UMAO
- Chinese Medicine Ordinance (Cap. 549) – CMO
- Import and Export Ordinance (Cap. 60) – IEO
- Control of Chemicals Ordinance (Cap. 145) – CCO
- Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance (Cap. 132) – PHMSO

The chart showed the classification of Drugs

The summary of classification in graph presentation is shown.

Then labeling of poisons and pharmaceutical products in Cap. 138 were introduced.

General labeling requirements for registration of pharmaceutical products included the following items.
1. Name of the product
2. Name and quantity of each active ingredient
3. Name and address of the manufacturer
4. Hong Kong registration number of the product
5. Batch Number
6. Expiry date
7. Specific storage conditions, if any

For sterile products, additional labeling requirement were need.
1. Name of preservative, if any
2. batch number and expiry date


For more information:
www.legislation.gov.hk
http://www.pshk.hk/