An official of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) of China recently disclosedthat SFDA cancelled around 4 300 items of drug approval documents in 2009 afterchecking the existing 170 000 items.SFDA accepted 33 000 applications for drug registration in 2009.Of that, 2 609applications were approved, 15 000 applications were not approved and 7 999 applica- An official of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) of China recently releasedthat SFDA canceled around 4 300 items of drug approval documents in 2009 afterchecking the existing 170,000 items. SFDA accepted 33 000 applications for drug registration in 2009. Of that 2 609 applications were approved, 15 000 applications were not approved and 7 999 applica-