Philippines FDA has been officially listed under the ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangement(MRA) on Good Manufacturing Practices(GMP) for medicinal products. This comes after the 28th ASEAN Consultative Committee On Standards And Quality Pharmaceutical Product Working Group (ACCSQ-PPWG) meeting on 19th & 20th December 2019.
This would result in result in reduced duplication of inspections, cost reduction, facilitation of exports, enhanced market access, enhanced industry reputation, transparency in inspection standards and consistency of inspection, in addition to increasing confidence in the quality of medicines for consumers, reliability and quality of medicines, improved consumer safety and protection, better control of counterfeit medicines, and improved access to affordable quality medicines.
Philippines would be the 5th country to be listed under the ASEAN MRA on GMP for Medicinal Products.
For more details, please refer to Philippines FDA’s press release: