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.

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

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:

Features of FarmaTag Hologram

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.



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