An overview of drug regulatory system in South Africa

Abstract

The regulatory authority of South Africa was a new force in leading global initiatives in access to affordable quality of medicines, the development of a regulatory agency during 1970’s, by ministry of health, South Africa has made a new era in regulating the quality of medicines it made an important regulation for establishing the medicines control council (MCC) under the supervision of ministry of health. The main aim of this article is to know the medicines control council regulatory proceedings in the drug approvals and clinical trial approvals in the country, and to review the drug approvals are in a standard manner with diversified or different committees of the MCC review process.