How to tell the authenticity of a drug
Is it a drug? Is it western medicine or Chinese medicine? Is it a health product or a food? Is it true, bad or false? You can first identify the authenticity from the approval number and logo on the outer packaging, and then log on to the National Medical Products Administration website for data query. The simplest and exact identification method is to look at the approval number on the package. The following is the knowledge I brought to you about how to distinguish the authenticity of drugs. Welcome to read.
how to distinguish the authenticity of a drug
1. The drug must be able to see the approval number on the package: H (or Z.S.J.B.F)+8 digits? It means' drugs approved for production and marketing in National Medical Products Administration, and the letter H stands for chemicals, Z proprietary Chinese medicines, S biological products, domestic sub-packaging of J imported drugs, B drugs with adjuvant treatment and F pharmaceutical excipients.
2. if it is not on the package? National medicine quasi-word? Definitely not medicine, if there is? National medicine quasi-word? You log in to National Medical Products Administration for data query, enter the name of the drug or? National medicine quasi-word? The letters and 8 numbers at the back are genuine drugs, but what can't be found is fake drugs.
3. if the approval number is: x drug system word H(Z)+4-digit year number+4-digit serial number, this approval number is a hospital preparation, which can only be used in our hospital and cannot be sold in other hospitals and pharmacies.
4. If the expiration date or the production batch number is not marked or changed on the drug package, the drugs that exceed the expiration date are all inferior drugs.
5. The approval number of National Medical Products Administration must be seen on the package of health care products: national food health word G(J)+8 is a number, and the letter G means domestic J means imported. Or the approval number of the Ministry of Health: Wei Shi Jian Zi (Wei Shi Jian Jin Zi) +8 digits. And it is stipulated that the special logo of health care products must be marked on the package or label: Police tactical unit? , a pattern similar to police tactical unit, with the word health food below, and the approval number below the word health food. Those without the approval number of police tactical unit and health food are fake health products.
6. what is marked on the package of food? Food production license number? They all start with QS followed by 12-digit serial number. Yes? Health permit number? The abbreviations of provinces are followed by serial numbers, such as Yuwei Food Certificate, Yuewei Food Certificate, and Huwei Food Certificate. Its logo is a deformed blue Q with a white S in a rectangular white background. It's called QS logo, and there are four words of quality and safety under QS.
However, if the illegal traders use the packaging of genuine drugs to make fakes, only professional institutions (drug inspection institutes) can judge whether the drugs are true or false through chemical and physical testing methods.
(1) Identify from the drug label.
qualified drugs must have the registered trademark, manufacturer, approval number, product name, main ingredients, indications, usage, dosage, contraindications, specifications, adverse reactions and precautions, etc., and the drugs with specified expiration date must also indicate the expiration date.
most counterfeit drugs have no registered trademarks; Some trademarks may include the contents of genuine trademarks, but their registered trademarks and approval numbers are forged; The printing quality is poor, the handwriting is unclear, the color is incorrect, some even have typos, the English letters are also wrong, the sentences are unreasonable, or the font sizes are different; Others simply do not have the contents of genuine drug labels.
⑵ identify the drug from its appearance.
Take a look:
Tablet: Is there any discoloration, mottling, mildew, adhesion, one-sided defect, unpolished, crystal precipitation, etc.
sugar-coated tablet: it should be white or other colors with smooth surface. If the surface of the drug is faded, exposed, discolored and moldy, adhered, the sugar-coated tablet is cracked, or spots appear, it cannot be used.
capsule: if it is moldy, soft, broken or has small holes in the shell, it can't be used.
eye drops: if there are crystals, flocs or spots, discoloration, turbidity, precipitation, etc. all indicate that the medicine has deteriorated and cannot be used.
injection: if the safety section is broken, the seal is not tight, the color is uneven, there is foreign matter precipitation, the powder for injection is discolored, and it is seriously caked, stuck to the bottle or deliquesced, so it cannot be used.
drugs cannot be sold or used after the expiration date.
second smell: mainly smell. For example, Di 'ao Xinxuekang Capsule has a strong fishy smell. Lincomycin hydrochloride injection has the odor of garlic or pickles. Synthetic Houttuynia tablets have the odor of Houttuynia cordata Thunb. Cefalexin capsules, the powder twisted by hand smells like preserved eggs.
three tastes: taste the contents of the capsule. Such as crack capsules, the real taste is bitter, and the fake taste is astringent. Amoxicillin capsule, the real taste is slightly bitter, and the fake has the taste of corn starch.
four tests: for example, the compound sulfamethoxazole tablet is easy to burn, but the fake product does not burn.
five deliveries: in the process of purchase, sale and use, if you have doubts about the quality of drugs, you should send them to the drug inspection department for inspection, and only those who are qualified can use them. ;