Kenya & IGAD collaborate to implement post market surveillance & pharmacovigilance to improve patient safety The Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) in collaboration with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), has implemented several post-marketing surveillance (PMS) and pharmacovigilance (PV) activities within the IGAD member states which include Kenya, Uganda, Djibouti, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and South […]
PPB heightens surveillance to weed out illegal outlets April 28, 2022– The Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) has heightened the war on illegal pharmaceutical outlets in Nairobi and parts of Kajiado counties. The latest crackdown saw PPB together with the National Police Service seize a total of 150 cartons of assorted pharmaceuticals valued at Sh24 […]
Kenya drug regulator, PPB unveils new system to report adverse events through Phone April 13, 2022 – Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) through support from the USAID Medicines, Technologies & Pharmaceutical Services Program (MTaPS) has developed a mPvERs system, a mobile based solution that provides a reporting platform for the public to report on adverse […]
Crackdown on unlicensed pharmacies continues in lower Eastern and Nairobi Machakos April 1, 2022 – In its effort to tame irregular pharmaceutical practices in the country the Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) is currently conducting a joint regulatory operation in Lower Eastern Kenya and Nairobi region in partnership with the National Police Service. The operation […]
Wholesalers warned against distributing medicines to unregistered outlets Kakamega March 19, 2022 – Wholesalers dealing in Pharmaceuticals have been warned against selling medicines to unregistered and unlicensed Pharmacies in the country. The Pharmacy and Poisons Board Coordinator for Good Distribution Practices Julius Kaluai issued the warning as the board intensifies crackdown on proliferation of unregistered pharmacies […]
Kakamega March 18, 2022 – The Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) and the National Police service are currently conducting a joint regulatory operation in Western Kenya and Nairobi region. The regulatory operation aims at executing the warrants of arrest relating to Pharma crimes, enforcement of previously issued closure notices, surveillance and enforcement of adherence to Good […]
NAIROBI, Kenya September 25, 2019 – The Pharmacy and Poisons Board today celebrated the World Pharmacists Day under the theme “Safe and Effective Medicines for All,” with a launch of three key pharmaceutical guidelines. The Guidelines on good distribution practices, Guidelines on disposal of pharmaceutical waste and Guidelines on transportation of pharmaceuticals were launched by […]
Mombasa Wednesday November 6 2019 – A total of 71 illegal chemists in Coast Region have been closed, stocks seized and owners arrested during a crackdown carried out by the Pharmacy and Poisons board (PPB) pharmaceutical inspectors and the police under the Coast Regional Commissioner. Among those arrested include operators of mobile clinics using vehicles with […]
Recall of Sure Lubricated Condoms Dotted The Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) in collaboration with the National STI and AIDS Control Program (NASCOP) conducted a joint post-market surveillance quality survey of selected medical products and health technologies used in Kenya. Among the products that were sampled and tested were male latex condoms. The laboratory analysis […]
Ranitidine is a medicine used to treat and prevent ulcers of the stomach and intestine, and belongs to a group of medicines known as H2-Blocker. It works by reducing the amount of acid that the stomach produces. Swissmedic, the National Medicines Regulatory Authority of Switzerland through the Swissmedic’s Official Medicines Control Laboratory found low level […]