Glossary
Look up Vietnamese regulatory terms and abbreviations across medicine, supplements, food, medical devices and cosmetics — trilingual EN/VI/JA.
29 terms
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Bảo hiểm Xã hội Việt Nam VSS
The national social-insurance fund administering compulsory health insurance (Bảo hiểm Y tế — BHYT) for the entire popu…
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Bảo hiểm y tế BHYT
Vietnam's compulsory national health-insurance scheme covering the entire population, administered by Vietnam Social Se…
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Bộ Y tế MOH
The Vietnamese ministry with overall responsibility for health policy, healthcare services, and the regulation of medic…
Agency or authority
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Chứng chỉ hành nghề dược CCHND
The natural-person professional licence required for every responsible person on a GCN ĐĐKKDD and for personnel perform…
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Cơ quan Kiểm soát Ma túy Quốc tế INCB
The independent quasi-judicial UN body that monitors national compliance with the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Dr…
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Cảnh giác Dược
The science and practice of detecting, assessing, understanding and preventing adverse effects and other drug-related p…
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Cục An toàn thực phẩm VFA
The Ministry of Health directorate responsible for food safety, including health supplements (thực phẩm bảo vệ sức khỏe…
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Cục Hạ tầng và Thiết bị y tế IMDA
The directorate within the Ministry of Health responsible for medical-device regulation in Vietnam — separate from DAV.…
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Cục Quản lý Dược DAV
The directorate within the Ministry of Health responsible for the entire pharmaceutical sector — marketing authorisatio…
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Cục Quản lý Y, Dược cổ truyền
The Ministry of Health directorate responsible for traditional medicine, including thuốc cổ truyền (finished traditiona…
Agency or authority
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Doanh nghiệp có vốn đầu tư nước ngoài FIE
A Vietnamese-incorporated enterprise with foreign equity, governed by the Investment Law and Enterprise Law. Sector rul…
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Dược liệu
Raw materials of plant, animal or mineral origin used for medicinal purposes — under Article 66 of the Pharmacy Law as …
Medicine
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Giấy chứng nhận lưu hành tự do FSC
A certificate confirming that a product is freely sold in the issuing country. For Vietnamese-manufactured drugs destin…
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Giấy chứng nhận lưu hành tự do (trang thiết bị y tế) CFS
In the medical-device context, CFS denotes the Certificate of Free Sale required for imports of Class C/D devices into …
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Giấy chứng nhận sản phẩm dược CPP
A WHO-format certificate issued by the regulatory authority of the exporting country, certifying that a finished drug i…
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Giấy chứng nhận đủ điều kiện kinh doanh dược GCN ĐĐKKDD
The umbrella business-condition certificate required for every form of pharmacy business in Vietnam under Article 32 of…
Regulatory & legal
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Số đăng ký lưu hành / Số lưu hành
The umbrella term for the authorisation a regulated product must hold before commercial sale in Vietnam. For drugs, the…
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Sở Y tế
The Department of Health at provincial level — or, after the 2024–2025 local-government restructuring, the equivalent s…
Agency or authority
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Thuốc kiểm soát đặc biệt
The umbrella category — under the Pharmacy Law as implemented by Decree 163/2025/NĐ-CP and Circular 18/2026/TT-BYT — fo…
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Thực hành tốt bán lẻ thuốc GPP
The quality standard for retail pharmacy operations in Vietnam — set by Circular 02/2018/TT-BYT, amended by Circular 12…
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Thực hành tốt bảo quản thuốc GSP
The quality standard for warehousing of finished drugs and pharmaceutical starting materials in Vietnam — set by Circul…
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Thực hành tốt nuôi trồng và thu hái dược liệu GACP
The quality standard for cultivation, harvesting and wild-collection of medicinal plants and the production of dược liệ…
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Thực hành tốt phân phối thuốc GDP
The quality standard for wholesale distribution of drugs and pharmaceutical starting materials in Vietnam — set by Circ…
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Thực hành tốt sản xuất thuốc GMP
The quality standard for drug manufacturing in Vietnam — currently set by Circular 28/2025/TT-BYT (effective 1 July 202…
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Thực phẩm bảo vệ sức khỏe TPBVSK
The Vietnamese category for health supplements containing vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids, enzymes, probio…
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