Revised BPOM Regulation Prepares Additional Sanctions for Health Supplement Businesses

Health supplement business actors will be subject to administrative sanctions in the form of revocation of distribution permits if they are involved in trademark disputes. This rule has been added to the planned amendment to Regulaiton of the National Agency of Drug and Food Control (“BPOM”) No. 32 of 2022 on Criteria and Procedures for Registration of Health Supplements, as amended by Regulation of BPOM No. 15 of 2024 (collectively referred to as “Regulation 32/2022”).

“If based on a final and binding decision related to health supplements, it can be a court decision on disputes between parties related to the use of trademarks. This also becomes an administrative sanction for the revocation of distribution permits,” said the Chair of the Health Supplement and Quasi-Drug Standards Drafting Team, Erni Rahmawati.

BPOM has also added types of administrative sanctions for health supplement business actors. These include the temporary suspension of activities such as the issuance of distribution permits and/or the closure of access to applications and the suspension of the distribution permit process for health supplements for a certain period of time.