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The quality of generic medications talks about all the requirements of manufacture that must fulfill so that the medicine obtains the waited for effect, the smaller damage possible envelope consumes that it. The requirements of quality of generic medications are obtained by means of the fulfillment of the Good Practices of Manufacturer (GPM). The GPM are the procedures that assure a manufacture uniforms and controlled of products, in agreement with the international norms of quality and according to the conditions demanded for their commercialization guaranteeing the reproducibility of the quality lot to lot.
No medicine manufacturer who exists abroad in Colombia or can sell generic medications if she does not have a certification of the GPM. The Ministry of Health visits all the medicine manufacturers are foreign or national and verifies that they fulfill all the requirements of quality.
At present the 100% of the medicine manufacturers that are commercialized in Colombia they have been certificates in the Good Practices of Manufacture. After the medicine is produced they must satisfy other requirements of storage and transport that protect of any alteration or change. These requirements also are part of the quality.
Who is the person in charge of the quality of generic medications? The quality of a medicine is responsibility of the manufacturer. The State and the Secretariats of Health verify that the quality is fulfilled and it stays in all the process of commercialization of the generic medications.
What differentiates is between a generic medications and an innovating medicine? When a laboratory develops a new substance that can be used as it leaves from a medicine knows like innovating laboratory and a generic medication that produces know like innovating medicines. By to have realized that development the innovating laboratory must right not to have competitors for generic medications by a period of 20 years.
This exclusive feature is known like patent. Generic medications that make after this period and which contain the same substance, are known as competing medicines or generic medications and usually are much more cheap that the innovator. The majority of generic medications is commercialized by laboratories different from invented which them, but also has generic produced by innovating laboratories. A generic medications can be sold with the generic name or a name different, in this case are known as generic from mark.
Many people think that if a medicine is cheaper it is of bad quality. Nevertheless the price does not have to do with the quality, but with the existence of competition.