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Congratulations to Ministry of Food and Drug Safety @TheMFDS, Republic of KoreaπŸ‡°πŸ‡·, to have achieved maturity level 4, the highest level in WHO’s classification of regulatory authorities for medical products bit.ly/3EMDELY Image
WHO’s assessment of regulatory authorities is based on an evaluation tool that checks regulatory functions against a set of over 260 indicators, e.g. product authorization, testing of products, market surveillance and the ability to detect adverse effects bit.ly/3EMDELY Image
Only about 30% of the world’s regulatory authorities have the capacity to ensure medicines, vaccines and other health products are produced to required standards, work as intended and do not harm patients bit.ly/3EMDELY Image
Other than Republic of Korea, only #Singapore has attained maturity level 4 in medicines regulation while 11 countries have attained maturity level 3.

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