MAL No.
Introduction
Before being marketed in Malaysia, all pharmaceutical products including health supplements and traditional preparations must be registered with the Drug Control Authority. Registered products will have 2 key features.
- A registration number starts with "MAL"
- A genuine FarmaTag hologram sticker
Users can check the registration status of a product through the Quest 3+ or by contacting the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency at 03-78835400.
Format of MAL
A valid registration number starts with "MAL", followed by 8-digit numbers and ends with an alphabet to indicate their registration category.
- The first 2 digits correspond to the year of registration, the next 2 digits corresponds to the month of registration and followed by 4 digits of running numbers.
NOTE: Notification number is unique for each cosmetic product and its variant (if any) in the format as below: NOTyymmxxxxxK (y: year, m: month, x: serial number).
Categories of Registered Product
The categories of registered product are as follows:
- A: Controlled medicines
- X: Over the counter medicines (OTC)
- T: Natural Products/ Traditional Medicines
- N: Health Supplements
- H: Veterinary Products
Administrative Codes
In addition, there may be administrative codes used by the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency after the product category. The administrative code is
- C: Contract Manufactured (the product is manufactured by a GMP certified contract manufacturer)
- E: For Export Only (FEO) (the product is to be sold for export only and not for sale in the local market)
- R: Packed and/or repacked (the product is packed and/or repacked by an approved GMP certified packer and/or repacker)
- S: Second source (the product is from a second source/ approved second manufacturer)
- Y: Orphan products
- Z: Products gazetted as zero-rated under the Goods and Services Tax Act 2014, Goods and Services Tax (Zero-Rated Supplies) Order 2014.
FarmaTag Hologram
Starting 1 September 2019, Ministry of Health Malaysia has decided to replace the use of Meditag hologram with FarmaTag hologram. Key features of FarmaTag hologram are:
For FarmaTag hologram, anyone can use FarmaChecker to have real time and instant authentication check for the medicines that he purchases (as a solution to protect the consumer from any counterfeit medicine).
- FarmaChecker also allows the consumer to do instant reporting for any unrecognised and fake labels detected at any time & anywhere.
Hologram Sticker UK are specialized sort of stickers which are created for the purpose of security, validation and protection against the counterfeiting. They are printed with the help of coherent light resource which can be laser or electric beam. This kind of sticker is very important for the product market because it helps in securing and distinguishing the products from the duplicate ones. These stickers are made from a metallic holographic polypropylene material, which gives them a beautiful shimmering rainbow effect when they catch the light. They are printed with a customised design, and can be applied to a variety of packaging materials. They also provide an extra layer of authentication by displaying encoded serial numbers, which can be used to verify the authenticity of a product.
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