Pharmaceutical Affairs and Food Safety Council

PAFSC

EDIT  Deliberation of the Pharmaceutical Affairs and Food Safety Council (PAFSC).

The Pharmaceutical Affairs and Food Sanitation Council (PAFSC) serves as an advisory body to the MHLW, and reviews and discusses important pharmaceutical and food sanitation-related matters Pharmaceutical Affairs Department and a Food Sanitation Department. The latter comes under the Food Sanitation Law and the former under other laws. The Council has as members experts in various fields1) including the medical and pharmaceutical sciences whose duty is to examine and review important pharmaceutical matters. The frequency of committee meetings differs. For example, the First Committee on New Drugs2) and the Second Committee on New Drugs2), which review new drug applications, each meet approximately eight times a year3). New drugs are then reviewed or reported and approved by the Pharmaceutical Affairs Department that meets four times a year 4.4,5) 1) Nursing, life sciences, applied biochemistry, mathematics and statistics, law and economic. 2) The Second Committee on New Drugs discusses antiviral drugs, chemotherapeutic agents, anti-malignant tumor agents, blood products and biological products while the First Committee discusses agents in the remaining therapeutic categories. 3) The First and Second Committees on New Drugs meet in January, February, April, May, July, August, October and November in principle. 4) The Pharmaceutical Affairs Department meets in March, June, September, January and February in principle