The Registration Board of Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan grants registration to pharmaceutical and biologicals drug products for human and veterinary use. The Drugs (Licensing, Registering and Adverting), Rules, 1976 as amended requires that applicant shall submit applications for human use on Form 5F (CTD), along with submissions of product development, and stability studies, etc under the relevant modules.
For these studies, applicants firms have to procure the Drug Substance / Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) from licensed pharmaceutical manufacturers only having valid Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Certifications and/or Drug Manufacturing Licenses form the relevant Regulatory Authority of the Country of origin.
The DRAP Authority, upon the request of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association has allowed the manufacturers to acquire Drug Substance / Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (except controlled Drugs / Substance) from another Drug Manufacturing License (DML) holders which has already imported / procured from an authorized source, only for conducting product development and stability studies to submit application for registration to DRAP on Form 5F. However, all requirements of quality and traceability would be applicable in such cases and will be the responsibility of the manufacture/applicant. Further, the products so manufactured in NO case shall be allowed for commercial sale.
The directions of DRAP Authority and Registration Board is notified accordingly.