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Editorial policy

Last updated 11 November 2026

Medicine safety is a subject where mistakes matter. This page explains how we decide what to publish, where our facts come from and how we fix errors.

Our aim

To explain DRAP's Mehfooz Dawa programme and related medicine-safety topics in plain language for people in Pakistan, so they can check a medicine, understand the result and know what to do next.

How a guide is made

  1. A real questionEach guide answers a question people in Pakistan actually search for, such as how to check a batch number or what to do when a pack has no barcode.
  2. Primary sources firstFacts about rules, deadlines and procedures come from DRAP's own circulars, guidelines, forms and notices, and from the laws they apply.
  3. Written for the readerPlain English, a direct answer at the top, practical steps, and Roman Urdu or Urdu where it helps.
  4. Checked before publishingDates, numbers and procedural details are checked against the source. Where a fact could not be confirmed, we leave it out or say so.
  5. DatedEvery guide shows when it was last updated.

Sources we rely on

  • Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan: circulars, guidelines, recall and rapid alerts, the PharmaPrice Index, and the track and trace portal's public pages.
  • Pakistan's laws and rules, including the Drugs Act, 1976, the DRAP Act, 2012 and the Drugs (Labelling and Packing) Rules.
  • GS1 standards for barcodes and serialisation.
  • World Health Organization material on substandard and falsified medical products and antimicrobial resistance.

See sources and methodology for how our data tools are built.

What we do not do

  • We do not give personal medical advice, doses or treatment recommendations.
  • We do not declare a named medicine safe or unsafe on our own; we report what DRAP has published.
  • We do not accept payment to change content, results or rankings.
  • We do not present illustrations as photographs of real products.

Independence

MehfoozDawa.pk is not part of DRAP or the government. Advertising is kept separate from editorial content; see our advertising policy.

Corrections

If you spot an error, email [email protected] with the page address and what is wrong. We review every report. Factual errors are corrected promptly and the page's update date is changed. Significant corrections are noted on the page.

Keeping content current

Rules and data change. We refresh the recall and price data regularly, and review guides when DRAP publishes new rules or procedures.