China's State Food and Drug Administration has issued its "Notice on Implementing Anti-Doping Regulations and Further Enhancing Doping Management" in an effort to enhance doping management and provide a fair competitive environment for 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
The Notice requires promoting the publicity and education of Anti-Doping Regulations; enhancing the supervision on enterprises producing anabolic agents and peptide hormones included in the Prohibited List; implementing a strict access system for wholesalers distributing anabolic agents and peptide hormones and intensifying market supervision; being strict with the approval of the export of anabolic agents and peptide hormones; and enhancing the supervision on the package inserts of drugs containing prohibited substances in the Prohibited List.
The Notice requires that the Beijing Drug Administration and Shandong Food and Drug Administration organize an inspection on drug retailers in the Olympic games hosting city and the neighboring regions, strictly prohibit the retail of anabolic agents and peptide hormones — except insulin — and ask the drug retailers to clearly indicate in their stores "prohibit the sale of anabolic agents and peptide hormones.
The SFDA's main tasks in China are to organize relevant authorities to draft laws and regulations on the safety management of food, health food and cosmetics and organize relevant authorities to formulate comprehensive supervision policy, work plan and supervise its implementation.
