On the 20th, the State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration held a special press conference on the stability of price and quality of epidemic related drugs and medical supplies. According to the relevant person in charge of the State Administration of Market Supervision, in the past two weeks, the national market supervision authorities have focused on investigating and punishing four kinds of illegal acts of raising prices, including "substantially increasing sales prices without significantly increasing costs". 307 cases have been filed, 92 cases have been closed, and a fine of 2.581 million yuan has been imposed. It is the primary task of the national price supervision and anti unfair competition line in the coming period to crack down on the problem of indiscriminate price increases of epidemic related drugs and medical supplies. Tian Shihong, deputy director of the State Administration of Market Supervision, said that in the past two weeks, the State Administration of Market Supervision organized the national market supervision system to always maintain a high pressure of strong supervision and carry out in-depth special law enforcement inspections. We investigated and dealt with a number of typical cases of illegal activities nationwide, such as price hikes of epidemic related drugs and medical supplies, and immediately organized the investigation and treatment of price hikes to eliminate the epidemic. Twelve cases have been submitted to the local market supervision department for filing. Referring to the concerned antipyretic and analgesic drugs, Huang Guo, the deputy director of the State Food and Drug Administration, said that according to statistics, there are 194 kinds of antipyretic, cough relieving, antibacterial and antiviral drugs that have been listed nationwide, involving more than 9000 approval documents. As for ibuprofen and acetaminophen, according to the data of the annual report of the enterprise in 2021, there are 446 valid document numbers of ibuprofen, including 104 in production in 2021; There are 986 effective document numbers of acetaminophen, of which 111 will be produced in 2021. With the coordination and support of relevant departments, at present, the pharmaceutical enterprises in production of these two varieties are gradually releasing capacity. Huang Guo said that in order to strengthen the quality and safety supervision of epidemic prevention and control drugs and ensure the overall stability of the drug safety situation, the State Food and Drug Administration has started the emergency approval process according to laws and regulations. Up to now, the State Food and Drug Administration has approved 5 COVID-19 vaccines with conditions, and another 8 COVID-19 vaccines have been put into emergency use after being demonstrated and approved by relevant departments; 11 therapeutic drugs and 128 various testing reagents were approved. Focusing on maintaining the order of online transactions of epidemic related drugs and medical supplies, preventing and stopping improper online transactions, Pang Jin, Director of the Department of Online Supervision of the State Administration of Market Supervision, introduced that recently the State Administration of Market Supervision issued a work tip on regulating the order of online transactions of epidemic related materials, requiring Internet platform enterprises to strictly comply with market supervision and management laws and regulations, and strictly implement the management responsibilities of operators on the platform Responsibility for stabilizing the price and quality of epidemic related drugs and medical supplies, resolving disputes over online consumption, and ensuring compliance with the law. "In view of the high price sales of epidemic drugs on e-commerce platforms as reflected by the public opinion in recent days, the market supervision department has carried out risk monitoring on the illegal prices, fake and shoddy products, false publicity, and unlicensed operation of epidemic drugs and medical supplies sold online on relevant platforms. 378 pieces of monitoring information have been formed and distributed to the local supervision department for verification and investigation according to law." Pang Jin said. At the meeting, the second batch of typical cases of illegal drugs and medical supplies involving epidemic diseases were reported, including five cases of illegal prices, two cases of illegal advertising, and three cases of unqualified masks. (Outlook New Times)