SFDA launches inspection campaign for imported drugs and medical devices

The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) will launch a six-month-long campaign to step up inspections on licenses of imported drugs and medical devices, state media reported. The state administration will verify the authenticity of the
applications for domestic and imported medical appliances, cardiac
pacemakers, valves, brackets and artificial joints by November. The campaign announcement comes during a hearing in Shanghai where parents of a teenager who died in 2005 are suing a hospital for giving their son an imported heart pump that was not registered with the SFDA. Former SFDA chief Zheng Xiaoyu was executed in July for taking bribes from pharmaceutical companies.