Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and

Relationships are looser in some countries. The health authority of Canada claims that the Canadian GMP guidelines of 2002 [16] have been revised in line with the PIC and the WHO guides as well as the GMP guide on APIs produced by ICH. (See below.) The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW) explains that ordinance no. 3 as the legal base for GMP requirements in Japan [17] has been drawn up taking into account both the relevant paragraphs of the U.S. CFR, parts 210 and 211, as well as the WHO guide. 

Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW)... 

In Japan, there has been harmonization with the other regions in the area of toxicology (animal studies) the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) accepts appropriate foreign animal data and animal safety studies performed according to ICH guidelines. Indeed, Japan has played a major role, and its then current fertility and reproductive animal studies requirements have been adopted by the other two regions. 

As part of a series of scientific studies sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, Matsui et al. (2002) conducted two studies 7 years after... 

Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare (Former Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare), Guidelines for Toxicity Studies of Drugs (7) Skin Photosensitization Studies, Tokyo,... 

Under the authority of the Minister and the Vice-Minister, the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW or Koseirodosho in Japanese) is responsible for social security, public health and the promotion of social welfare. For such purposes, the organization includes (Figure 35.1) the following ... 

EbisawaM (2004). (Labeling of food containing allergic substance) [in Japanese]. Report of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, May 31. http //www.mhlw.go.jp/shingi/2004/ 05/s053l-8a.html (accessed Nov. 2008)... 

In Japan, colouring agents are named as colorants. As mentioned in Section 1.2, a positive list for synthetic organic colorants was created for the first time in 1966 by the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW, 1966), and amended by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW) in 1972 and 2003. As mentioned in Section 4.1, Japan uses alternate INCI names for colouring agents in the cosmetics marketed in Japan. These Japanese names differ from the U.S. and EU names. 

Ministry of Health, Welfare and Labor, The Official Analytical Methods of the Ministry of Environment, Japan, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Labor, Tokyo, mepronil (1993), flutoranil (1996), flusulfamid (1996), etobenzanid (1997) (in Japanese). 

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