Author: ETCO

Source: 30/10/2009

Approximately 200 pharmaceutical and related professionals filled one of the
auditoriums of Caesar Park & ​​Business Faria Lima, to accompany the
dissemination of the results of the pilot project carried out by ETCO, between January and
July 2009, with a view to preparing the private sector and providing subsidies to
regulatory agency (ANVISA) to meet the requirements of Law 11.903 / 2009,
sanctioned by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who created the
National Drug Control Board.

The project consisted of checking the printing and reading processes of the
identification codes on secondary packaging of approximately 75 thousand
medicines, in addition to the collection and transmission of all information generated by
companies participating in the initiative. The system has been tested in seven industries:
Aché, Bayer, Eurofarma, Mantecorp, Nycomed, Pfizer and Sanofi-Aventis; three
distributors: Panarello, Profarma and Santa Cruz; and retail chains: Droga Raia,
Drogaria Araújo, Drogasil and Pague Menos, as well as logistics operators: DHL,
Bomi and AGV.

According to ETCO's executive president, André Franco Montoro Filho, the
pilot project fully served its purpose, identifying points
important factors that should be considered by agents in the pharmaceutical chain and
regulatory authorities in order to ensure greater efficiency in the implementation
of the system. “The system can be implemented with the adoption of solutions
open technology and public domain, with characteristics and flexibility
to be implemented by companies, regardless of their size ”,
stressed the executive.

Another important point highlighted by Montoro Filho was the great change in
paradigm for the entire pharmaceutical chain, with the introduction of the concept of
unitary coding, “fundamental to have the appropriate level of tracking
for compliance with the Law. ”

The Seminar also had the participation of the executive director of ETCO,
Patrícia Blanco, and representatives of Abrafarma - Sérgio Mena Barreto and
Abafarma - Luiz Fernando Buainain. Unable to attend the event for
agenda problems, author of the Bill that created the National System of
Medicines Control, federal deputy Vanessa Grazziotin (B-AM PC),
was represented by means of a video in which he congratulated ETCO's efforts
and ratified the importance of the System for society as a whole.

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