Drug Regulatory Authority(DRA), Bhutan

27/01/2026

Public Health Awareness
This awareness material is issued by the Bhutan Food and Drug Authority (BFDA) to promote safe, informed, and responsible use of medicines and health products. Your awareness helps protect public health.

མི་མང་གསོ་བའི་གོ་བརྡ།
གོ་བརྡའི་ཡིག་ཆ་འདི་ འབྲུག་ཟ་ཆས་དང་སྨན་རིགས་དབང་འཛིན་གིས་ སྨན་རིགས་དང་ གསོ་བའི་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་ཚུ་ ཉེན་སྲུང་དང་ ཤེས་རྟོགས་ཀྱི་སྒོ་ལས་ དེ་ལས་ འགན་ཁུར་ཅན་གྱི་ཐོག་ལས་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ནི་ཡར་འཕེལ་བཏང་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ ཁྱབ་སྤེལ་འབདཝ་ཨིན། མི་ངོ་རང་སོ་གིས་ འདིའི་སྐོར་ལས་ཤེས་མི་འདི་གིས་ མི་མང་གསོ་བ་ཉེན་སྲུང་འབད་ནི་ནང་ ཕན་གྲོགས་འབདཝ་ཨིན།

14/01/2026

Reiteration Post

The Bhutan Food and Drug Authority (BFDA) has detected that the recalled batch of the below-mentioned products is still available in the market across the country. As confirmed by the Thai Food and Drug Administration through the South-East Asia Regulatory Network (SEARN), the affected batch has failed microbial contamination testing and is therefore deemed unsafe for use.

In this regard, the BFDA reiterates its notification to the public and business entities that the specific batch (Batch No: 000332) has been recalled. Any remaining stocks of this batch must be immediately withdrawn from sale and submitted to the nearest BFDA office for safe disposal.

**Important Clarification: The recall applies only to the specific affected batch
identified through testing and does not imply that the product as a whole is unsafe.**

07/01/2026

Competency Examination on 05 March, 2026

This is to inform that we will be conducting Competency Examination on 05 March, 2026 from 09:30 am at the Ministry of Health. Individuals with qualifications as per BMRR 2019 and wishing to sit for the exam are requested to submit their applications using G2C services.

Please use the link below to apply on the G2C portal:
https://www.citizenservices.gov.bt/dra/public/index

Document requirements are as below:
1. CID Copy
2. BMHC certificate
3. Two recent passport size photo
4. Fee: Nu 300

Please note that the last date for submission of application is 02 March, 2026.

30/12/2025

15/12/2025

BFDA Public Health Advisory on high Lead and Mercury contains in unregistered traditional medicine (Rinchen Jumar 25) sold by Yuthok Traditional Pharmacy

15/12/2025

Regulatory Notification: The Bhutan Food and Drug Authority had confirmed the presence of high levels of lead and mercury in unregistered medicinal products sold by Yuthok Traditional Pharmacy, Thimphu. Following confirmatory laboratory testing of seized samples, Rinchen Jumar 25 (500 mg) Pill was found to contain high levels of lead and mercury.

05/11/2025

Competency Examination on 05 January, 2026

This is to inform that we will be conducting Competency Examination on 05 January, 2026 from 09:30 am at the Ministry of Health. Individuals with qualifications as per BMRR 2019 and wishing to sit for the exam are requested to submit their applications using G2C services.

Please use the link below to apply on the G2C portal:
https://www.citizenservices.gov.bt/dra/public/index

Document requirements are as below:
1. CID Copy
2. BMHC certificate
3. Two recent passport size photo
4. Fee: Nu 300

Please note that the last date for submission of application is 02 January, 2026.

10/10/2025

Press Release on Safety information on cough syrups containing high level of Diethylene Glycol (DEG) and Ethylene Glycol (EG) in india

10/09/2025

COMPETENCY EXAMINATION ON 03 November, 2025

This is to inform that we will be conducting Competency Examination on 03 November, 2025 from 09:30 am at the Ministry of Health. Individual with the qualifications as per BMRR 2019 and wishing to sit for the exam are requested to submit their applications using G2C services.

Please use the link below to apply on the G2C portal:
https://www.citizenservices.gov.bt/dra/public/index

Document requirements are as below:
1. CID copy
2. BMHC certificate
3. Two recent passport size photo
4. Fee: Nu. 300

Please note that the last date of submission of application is 29 October, 2025.