Fake Clinical Data No More: China To Criminalize Forgery

18 Apr 2017

China is planning to enact changes that will view the intentional forging of clinical trial and other data submitted to gain drug approvals as a criminal offence, punishable by prison terms of up to three years.

In a document issued April 10, China’s top court, the Supreme People’s Court, has said it is planning to make clinical data forgery and similar violations criminal acts subject to formal legal punishment.

The court listed three categories of behavior that will be considered criminal under the proposed changes: