At a meeting held in Beijing on April 13, 2006, China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) mobilized and deployed a national special campaign to crack down on the commercial bribery of the manufacturers and distributors of drugs and medical devices.

The overall objectives of the special campaign are to educate the manufacturers and distributors of drugs and medical devices and their employees about the importance of legal compliance and honesty in their activities, and to standardize their business activities and bring commercial bribery under control, the agency reported.

The campaign is also intended to establish a scientific supervision concept, improve the mechanism of law enforcement, regulation implementation and supervision, boost administrative law enforcement levels, guarantee public drug and food safety and promote the coordination of economic and social development.

In other regulatory news out of China, the SFDA has just opened its Administrative Service Center The Administrative Service Center. In the past, administrative acceptance and technical evaluation or administrative approval processes were "bundled." The Administrative Service Center now specializes in administrative acceptance, certificate making and delivery, announcements and other work and performs only format checking (instead of substantial content checking). This will separate the administrative acceptance, technical evaluation and administrative approval processes.

Since it was opened for a trial run, the Administrative Service Center has standardized acceptance, opened application items and flows, and provided consulting and services for the convenience of applicants, according to SFDA. Its basic principles and requirements are to provide "open, transparent, efficient and convenient" services to applicants. The center provides a uniform transaction and management platform for "one-window acceptance, one-time notification, one-stop services, one-time fee collection and time-limiting transaction." The center promises to provide services for the convenience of applicants and feature "all-around sunshine transactions."

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