What is the difference between electronic drug supervision codes and barcodes? Is the barcode of a drug a regulatory code?

The electronic drug supervision code is not a barcode. The difference between the two is as follows:

1. Different functions

The electronic drug supervision code management system is aimed at the production and circulation of drugs. Status supervision in the process; barcodes are used to distinguish different commodities, that is, one commodity item can only have one code, or one code can only identify one commodity item. Products of different specifications, different packaging, different varieties, different prices, and different colors can only use different product codes.

2. Difference in mandatory requirements

The act of applying for registration is completely voluntary. Producers and sellers who have obtained an enterprise legal person business license or business license in accordance with the law can apply for registration of a manufacturer identification code based on their own business needs.

The assignment of electronic drug supervision codes is mandatory. On June 17, 2010, the State Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) issued the "Notice on the Electronic Supervision of All Varieties of Essential Medicines". All winning bidders that produce essential medicines must join the drug list before March 31, 2011. The electronic supervision network shall make preparations for coding, verification, cancellation, and early warning processing of the enterprise itself in accordance with regulations.

3. Different regulatory agencies?

The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and the National Standards Administration are responsible for organizing the supervision and inspection of commodity barcodes across the country. Local quality and technical supervision administrative departments at all levels are responsible for their own administrative regions. Supervision and inspection of product barcodes; the regulatory agencies for electronic drug regulatory codes are the State Food and Drug Administration and local drug regulatory departments.

Extended information:

Introduction to the characteristics of electronic drug supervision codes

1. One code for one item

Breaking through the traditional one code for one category The mechanism enables unique identification and full tracking of each product, and realizes the unification of government supervision, logistics applications, merchant settlement, and consumer inquiry functions. Full tracking of each item ensures full monitoring of the product from the factory to customer use.

2. Centralized storage of dynamic information in the database

In order to break through the limitation that quality information and circulation dynamic information cannot be printed in advance, the regulatory network centrally stores product dynamic information in a super-large-scale regulatory database in real time. , while meeting the real-time dynamic information sharing needs of production, circulation, consumption, and supervision.

3. National coverage

Due to the characteristics of products produced in one place and distributed and sold nationwide, only a system network platform with nationwide unified and seamless coverage can meet the requirements of full supervision.

4. Full-process tracking

The supervision network collects full-process closed-loop information on the production source, circulation and consumption of products, and has information from relevant departments such as quality inspection, industry and commerce, commerce, and drug supervision. The technical functions of sharing and process linkage provide necessary information support for product quality traceability, accountability, problem recall, and law enforcement and anti-counterfeiting.

5. Consumer inquiry

You can conveniently check the authenticity and quality information of drugs by means of text messages, phone calls, the Internet and terminal facilities. The information consumers can obtain includes: generic name of the drug, dosage form, specifications; production company, production date, production batch number, expiration date, etc. If any problems are found, they can contact the local food and drug regulatory authorities.

Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia—Drug Electronic Supervision Code