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2017 Taiwan Food and Drug Administration Annual Report

5. Promoting awareness for safe drug use

(1) Establish 22 resource centers for drug use, 465 community drug use inguiry stations
and worked with 114 resource centers for drug use and seed schools across 20
counties and cities. A total of 11,987 people participated in the online quiz “Reading
the label and knowing three types of drug”.

(2) Prepare a all-in-one “You must know about domestic generic drugs”, release the
information on TFDA website, use colloquial wordings to introduce generic drugs,
distribute the flyer “know your generic drug” and “the descriptions of quality
management in generic drugs”, elaborate that the quality of generic drugs are well-
controlled. Additionally, post “myth buster of generic drugs” on Food & Drug
Consumer Newsletter, Pacific daily news, Yam and Taiwan Times to elaborate the

quality of generic drugs (Figure 8-3).

Figure 8-3 How to understand "OTC drugs" labeling and flyers of "know your generic drugs"

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