Pharmaceutical Industry Blog

Why Farbe Firma is the Leading Injectable Manufacturer in Grenada Last Updated: 20 September 2026 TL;DR: Grenada's two drug statutes register people and premises, not products. We read both in full and found no product register. Grenada does publish a list, but it is a list of pharmacopoeias rather than of agencies, so asking whether India's CDSCO appears on it is asking about the wrong noun. The money sits in OECS pooled procurement, whose manufacturer form asks for a GMP or

Why Farbe Firma is the Leading Injectable Manufacturer in Kiribati Last Updated: 20 September 2026 TL;DR: Kiribati has a medicines law on the statute book and a registration duty written into it. The Medicines Act 2018 creates a Register of Medicines and makes it an offence to import or distribute a medicine that is not on it. What we could not locate is the commencement notice, the regulations that would supply the forms and fees, or any published register. Say that in two p

Why Farbe Firma is the Leading Injectable Manufacturer in Seychelles Last Updated: 19 September 2026 TL;DR: Seychelles runs no product marketing authorisation system: no medicines register, no dossier requirement, no authorisation holder. What exists instead is an import permit issued per consignment by the Trade Department on the approval of the Ministry of Health's Medicines Regulatory Unit, held by a Seychelles-registered importer. Seychelles is high income, so the donor q

Why Farbe Firma is the Leading Injectable Manufacturer in Saint Lucia Last Updated: 19 September 2026 TL;DR: Saint Lucia has no product registration regime to file into. The Pharmacy Act registers pharmacists, pharmacies and sellers of poisons, not medicines, and the Ministry of Health's own profile with PAHO records marketing authorisation and import control as functions the country does not perform. There is therefore no recognition list and no dossier to win. The gate that

Why Farbe Firma is the Leading Injectable Manufacturer in Samoa Last Updated: 18 September 2026 TL;DR: Samoa - the independent state, not American Samoa - has no operating medicines registration system, and the Ministry of Health says so in its own current policy: "No product evaluation, registration or listing system exists at the moment." What exists on the statute book is a narrow new-drug gate in the Drugs Act 1967. The real gates are the Essential Medicines List, a Centr

Why Farbe Firma is the Leading Injectable Manufacturer in Sao Tome and Principe Last Updated: 18 September 2026 TL;DR: Sao Tome and Principe has no national product registration procedure to file into. The Ministry of Health's own Politica Farmaceutica Nacional 2019-2029 states the non-existence of procedures for the approval and registration of medicines, so there is no marketing authorisation to win and no recognition list. The operative gates sit elsewhere: the licensed lo