Time to update quality rules on generic drugs

AN INCREASING NUMBER OF CHINESE HEPATITIS C PATIENTS reportedly travel to India to buy cheap generic drugs for their treatment, instead of buying such medicines manufactured at home. Southern Metropolis Daily commented on Tuesday:

That India has become the "global pharmacy" has a lot to do with both its patent law and the high quality of its generic drugs.

On the one hand, the country allows local pharmaceutical companies to produce generic drugs before the original drugs' patents expire and even export these generic drugs overseas.