"The Anmat must ensure that ephedrine is used only in medicine"
This is indicated by the auditor in the body, Ricardo Martinez, adding that laboratories should perform a procedure to request authorization to import the substance .
The auditor of the National Drugs, Food and Medical Technology (Anmat), Ricardo Martinez, said today that the governing body shall have the duty to "ensure that ephedrine entering the country to be used only in medicine human. "
After the national government decided to tighten controls on the sale of ephedrine, Martinez said The laboratory "will have to make a proceeding before the Anmat" to ask "the authorization to export" the precursor chemical.
"They signed a joint resolution to improve mechanisms for import of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, which limits the import, so that they can only enter our country to seek the relevant approvals," said the official.
Speaking to radio 10, Martinez said that laboratories must be "legally registered" to make the proceedings in order to import ephedrine.
"What that matter has to do with the production of legitimate drugs, so our role is to ensure that you enter will be used in human medicine, "said Martinez.
administration Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner decided yesterday drugstores prohibit the importation of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, and found that only authorized laboratories that manufacture drugs, in order to avoid such substances are designed to produce illegal drugs.
official initiative occurs almost month of the shocking crime of Sebastián Forza, Damian Ferron and Leopoldo Bina, whose bodies were found shot dead in a ditch in the locality of General Rodríguez. Forza
, linked to drug stores, have sold ephedrine to Mexican narcos cartel tried to install a synthetic drug laboratory in a country house in the locality of Ingeniero Maschwitz.
Among other measures, the resolution provided for the requirement that within 10 days drugstores laboratories and declared the current stock of those substances used to produce medicine.
Source: lanacion.com.ar