China News Service, December 20th. According to the website of the State Administration for Market Regulation, on December 20, the State Administration for Market Regulation held a special press conference on stabilizing prices and quality of recent epidemic-related drugs and medical supplies.
Tian Shihong, a member of the party group and deputy director of the General Administration, attended and introduced the recent situation of price stabilization and quality assurance of epidemic-related drugs and medical supplies.
Tian Shihong said that at present, my country's epidemic prevention and control has entered a new stage, and the price stability and quality assurance of epidemic-related drugs and medical supplies is an important guarantee to ensure a smooth transition and a stable social order.
The General Administration of Market Supervision organizes special law enforcement inspections, strictly and quickly investigates and punishes illegal acts such as prices in accordance with the law, and gives quick and heavy blows to illegal acts such as price gouging, hoarding, false propaganda, false and illegal advertisements, counterfeiting and shoddy products that have been strongly reflected by all sectors of society , with unprecedented efforts and measures to further promote the work of price stabilization and quality assurance.
The comrade in charge of the State Food and Drug Administration introduced that in order to cope with the recent rapid increase in drug demand and provide more and better "weapons" for prevention and control, the State Food and Drug Administration has strengthened emergency approval management, fully supported drug supply guarantees, and increased production and capacity expansion for enterprises Carry out precise supervision, guide enterprises to carry out research in accordance with regulations, and expand production capacity in an orderly manner.
At the same time, the supervision of drug production and circulation has been strengthened, and the majority of pharmaceutical companies are required to tighten the string of quality and safety at all times and stick to the bottom line of quality and safety.
Strengthen all-round supervision online and offline, resolutely safeguard the safety of people's medication, and severely crack down on those who dare to take risks during the epidemic prevention period.
Faced with the new situation and new tasks of epidemic prevention and control and the sharply increasing demand for medical drugs from the people, the State Administration for Market Regulation quickly took effective measures to maintain the market order of epidemic-related drugs and medical supplies, and successively issued "Reminders on the Prices and Competition Order of Epidemic-Related Materials" Book", "Reminders on Regulating the Order of Online Transactions of Epidemic-Related Materials" and "Reminders on Supervising Production and Sales Enterprises of Epidemic Prevention Supplies and People's Livelihood Products to Strictly Implement the Responsibilities of Quality and Safety Subjects", which clearly stated the "nine musts" laws such as no price gouging, no collusion to increase prices, etc. The red line is to organize major e-commerce platform companies to hold administrative guidance meetings, consolidate the main responsibility of the platform, increase daily inspections of pharmaceuticals, supermarkets, and Chinese herbal medicine trading markets, strengthen the monitoring and supervision of epidemic-related advertisements, and make every effort to ensure smooth channels for complaints and reports .
Local market supervision departments have carried out in-depth special law enforcement inspections, and have investigated and dealt with a number of typical cases of violations such as the price of epidemic-related drugs and medical supplies across the country, forming a strong deterrent to illegal operators.
In the past two weeks, a total of 307 cases of price violations were filed by the national market supervision departments, 92 cases were closed, and the penalty amount was 2.581 million yuan. The supervision and law enforcement work has achieved initial results.
In the next step, the General Administration will continue to increase the intensity of supervision, maintain a high-pressure law enforcement situation, continue to expose typical cases, and further do a good job in stabilizing the price and quality of epidemic-related drugs and medical supplies.
(China New Finance and Economics)