Food producers have been given a 12-month window (until 29 July 2020) in which to bring their food packaging processes into line with Regulation 20/2019

Online sale of drugs are required to be undertaken based on pharmaceutical service facility licenses with only over-the-counter drugs which are allowed to be sold online

Certificates on maritime workspace examinations should be vlid for three-year validity periods as issued by the Director-General of Sea Transportation

The new guidelines now incorporate guidelines for pharmaceutical precursors under a single framework, whereas said guidelines were previously separated from guidelines for pharmaceutical and/or medicinal ingredients

Special medical screenings may only be performed against participants of BPJS Kesehatan who have never previously undergone any special medical screenings as offered by the government and never been previously diagnosed with Special Diseases

Assessments encompass the following activities: 1) Assessments of registration documents which relate to the fulfillment of good drug manufacturing practice (CPOB) requirements; 2) Desktop inspections; 3) Inspections of the facilities which are engaged in the manufacture of drugs which are being imported into and distributed within Indonesia; and 4) Evaluations of corrective action and preventive action

Operation of alcoholic-beverage industries must be based on: 1) The possession of Industrial Business License (IUI) as processed through the Online Single Submission (OSS) system, except for traditional alcoholic-beverage businesses; and 2) Compliance to quality standards for alcoholic beverages

Healthy environments in hospitals are now to be determined based on the compliance of hospitals with both environmental health quality standards and health requirements, and not just health requirements, as mandated under the previous regulation on the same matters

As an implementation to Article 12 of Regulation of the President No. 63 of 2018 on the Determination and Registration of Goods in Relation to Security, Safety, Health and the Environment

The Minister of Agriculture recently issued Regulation No. 53/PERMENTAN/KR.040/12/2018 on the Security and Quality of Plant-Based Fresh Foods in order to accommodate various new scientific and technological developments within the plant-based fresh foods business sector.