The anti-export list has shortened. It has over 1000 products less than the previous one, published by the ministry last week.
New anti-export list
Last Tuesday (March 10), the Ministry of Health added new items to the list of medicinal products, foodstuffs for particular nutritional uses and medical devices at risk of unavailability in Poland. They were products related to the prevention and treatment of viral infections. The list had 1587 items. It expanded to include painkillers, antivirals and antipyretics, as well as medical devices necessary to fight the spreading coronavirus (masks, gowns, pads).
Yesterday, the Ministry of Health published a new list – there are 554 items on it. The list still includes drugs that reduce fever, painkillers, antiviral drugs, and disinfectants. It includes, among others several dozen drugs containing ibuprofen and paracetamol. Products such as medical caps, surgical gowns, surgical masks, oxygen masks, medical shoe covers, surgical clothing, surgical gloves and electronic thermometers are no longer available.
Full lists of drugs at risk of unavailability can be found on the website of the Ministry of Health.
What is an anti-export list?
The so-called the anti-export list is used limiting the possibility of exporting or selling scarce medicinal products outside the country. Deficit, i.e. those that may be missing, especially if they are excessively exported. Such a list has been around for almost five years. In February, there were 400 items on the list. As Juliusz Krzyżanowski, a lawyer from Baker McKenzie, explains in “Polityka Zdrowotnej”, these were mainly drugs exported due to the large differences between the prices of these products in Poland and prices in other countries.
The anti-export act obliges provincial pharmaceutical inspectors to report drugs that are 5 percent missing to the Main Pharmaceutical Inspectorate (GIF). pharmacies in a given province. GIF informs the minister of health about these shortcomings. The export of drugs on the anti-export list without the consent of GIF is illegal and may result in high financial penalties, and recently also imprisonment.
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