Pharmaceutical Regulatory Authority

Tel: +260 211 220 429 | Fax: +260 238 458 |

We believe you are going to find the website as informative as possible. The Authority was established to ensure that medicines and allied substances conform to the required standards of quality, safety and efficacy throughout the chain of manufacture, importation, exportation, storage, distribution, supply, sale and use.

It also ensures that medicinal products are manufactured in facilities which are in compliance with current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) standards as recommended by the WHO.

News and Announcements

Recall of Enzoy Vitality Drink and Enzoy plus Drink sachets

The Pharmaceutical Regulatory Authority (PRA) wishes to inform all pharmaceutical wholesale dealers, pharmacies/chemists, traders and the general public that Enzoy Vitality Drink and Enzoy plus Drink sachets in powder form manufactured by Global Merchants Limited of Kenya are being recalled and should immediately be taken off the shelves and quarantined. Analytical tests performed on the above mentioned...

16 May 2012 Read more...

Porous borders worry Pharmaceutical Regulatory Authority

Shortage of manpower to man worry the Pharmaceutical Regulatory Authority , thereby compromising thier control of quality, safety and efficacy of pharmaceutical products. Speaking at a media breakfast recently the Authority officials said it is thier responsibility to protect Zambian people from substandard and unsafe pharmaceutical products, but their efforts where hampered by lack of man power...

08 January 2010 Read more...