Lebanon has lacked a central laboratory for years, hence the need for this laboratory, which was agreed upon in the Council of Ministers under Decision No. 8 dated 29/10/2025.
The drug registration decree stipulates that medicines must be analyzed in the reference laboratory in Lebanon, while the country has not been able, for 35 years, to establish this laboratory, although it constitutes a basic demand for industrialists and for enhancing the reputation and classification of Lebanese medicine.
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What the Public Prosecution did came based on a referral and letter issued by the Minister of Public Health, based on an internal investigation conducted by the Ministry, which found that the drugs seized by the security forces, based on the Attorney General's instruction, had a ministerial decision to remove them from the register for not meeting the necessary conditions for their use and circulation in the Lebanese market.
They had previously been delisted, and we are moving toward re-evaluating biosimilar medicines.
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