Pharmaceutical Industry Blog

Last Updated: August 23, 2026 TL;DR: India is already the largest reported pharmaceutical supplier to Turkmenistan, shipping USD 27.37 million of HS Chapter 30 goods in 2024 — 22.6% of all reported imports on UN Comtrade mirror data. Registration runs through the Center for registration of medical products and state quality control, an institution of the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry, under Law No. 319-V of 12 January 2016 on the Provision of Medicines. The statute

Last Updated: August 23, 2026 TL;DR: Medicines in Lao PDR are regulated by the Food and Drug Department (FDD, ກົມອາຫານ ແລະ ຢາ) of the Ministry of Health, now operating under an entirely new statute: the Law on Medicines and Medical Products (Amended) No. 85/NA of 25 June 2025, promulgated by Presidential Decree No. 094/P on 6 August 2025 and in force since 25 August 2025, replacing Law No. 07/NA of 2011. FDD's registration checklist for imported medicines follows the ASEAN Co

Last Updated: August 23, 2026 TL;DR: Sierra Leone's medicines regulator is the Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone (PBSL), re-established under the Pharmacy and Drugs Act 2001, ISO 9001:2015 certified since 2019 and operating a complete guideline suite from PBSL-GL-001 to PBSL-GL-040 published in 2025. A foreign manufacturer must appoint a locally incorporated agent licensed by PBSL to import, file a Common Technical Document dossier aligned to WHO prequalification and ICH format

Last Updated: August 23, 2026 TL;DR: Belarus registers medicines through RUE «Centre for Examinations and Tests in Health Service» (CETH) under the Ministry of Health, while GMP and EAEU-GMP inspections and the Certificate of a Pharmaceutical Product are handled by Gosfarmnadzor, the State Pharmaceutical Supervision institution that hosts the Ministry's Pharmaceutical Inspectorate. Since 1 January 2021 new products are registered under Eurasian Economic Union rules using the

Last Updated: August 23, 2026 TL;DR: Israel is one of the most demanding regulated markets an Indian sterile-injectable manufacturer can approach, and it is worth being direct about why. Medicines are registered by the Ministry of Health's Pharmaceutical Division under the Pharmacists Ordinance (New Version) 1981 and the Pharmacists Regulations (Preparations) 1986, with quality certification issued by the Institute for Standardization and Control of Pharmaceuticals (ISCP) in

Last Updated: August 23, 2026 TL;DR: Togo regulates medicines through the Direction de la Pharmacie, du Médicament et des Laboratoires (DPML), a directorate of the Ministry of Health rather than an autonomous agency, operating under the 2009 Public Health Code (Loi n° 2009-007 of 15 May 2009). That is changing: a decree creating an autonomous Agence togolaise de régulation pharmaceutique was still under final review at a Kpalimé expert workshop in late July 2026, so DPML rema