Pakistan pharma firms ask to revise barcode deadline

Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association (PPMA) has urged the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) to review its directive that gives six months to drug manufacturers for adopting ‘serialisation and barcode’ for their products, calling the deadline very short. Drap has made it binding on the pharmaceutical industry to adopt within six months the system of serialisation, which includes barcodes for medicines, in order to ensure authenticity and quality of products sold in the market.