New Guidelines for the Supervision of Pharmaceutical Substances Introduced

The National Agency of Drug and Food Control (Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan - “BPOM”) has issued Regulation No. 24 of 2021 on the Supervision of the Management of Drugs, Drugs Ingredients, Narcotics, Psychotropics and Pharmaceutical Precursors at Pharmaceutical Service Facilities (“Regulation 24/2021”), which updates the prevailing supervision provisions in order to ensure greater legal certainty as regards protecting the population from the inherent risks associated with said substances. Previously, similar provisions were addressed under Regulation of the BPOM No. 4 of 2018, which bore the same title (“Regulation 4/2018”)[1] and which has now been repealed and replaced by Regulation 24/2021.[2]