PROGRESS OF POLISH PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 258
• Publication Date: September 11, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Economic - Chemicals
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily and weekly newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Warsaw; London
DATE
PUBLISHED 20 Sep - 9 Dec 1952
LANGUAGE Polish
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PROGRESS OF POLISH PHARMACEItPICAL IPiDUGTRY
PRODUCES ABOUT 700 DRUGS -- Warsaw, Trybuna Ludu, 9 Dec 52
During the last few years, the Polish pharmaceutical industry has ex-
panded rapidly. Over 700 different drug; are now being produced. Production
has been started on penicillin, ACTH, chloromycetin, PAS, "hydrazide," syn-
thetic hormones, sulfamides, amino acids, and others.
In recent years, the domestic raw material sources have been expanded,
and substitutes for imported raw materials are now being produ.:?d in Poland.
At present, the synthesis of basic raw materials and intermediates for the
production of drugs constitutes about 70 percent of the total production of
the pharmaceutical industry.
Planned imports of drugs in 1953 will be only one fifth of the inports
in 1951.
For the first time in Polard'a history, the export of surplus drugs has
been started.
At a recent national meeting or the pharmaceutical industry in Jelenia
Gnra, achievements Of the industry aad its future tasks were outlined.
P1U'R1,'ACPTr1ICAL INDUSTRY - R%:MS -- Warsaw, Sluzba Zdrowia, 20 Sep 52
Before the war, only 10 percent of Poland's drug requirennnts were pro-
duc::d domestically, and the remaining 90 percent were imported. Patent
med!^ines of little value constituted the 10-percent domestic production.
More important synthetic products were not manufactured.
People's Poland was faced with very important problems in organizing a
largo pharmaceutical. industry. The reconstruction of the ten largest plants
of the pharmaceutical industry was carried out during the Three-Year Plan.
STATE
ARMY
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The Six-Year Plan will bring a fuPther increase in the pharmaceutical industry
by the solution of the problem of Intermediates in the chemical industry.
Then, the requirements of health institutions will be fully covered.
After the war production was begun on the most important drugs, such as
acetylenic acid acetylene dicarboxylic acid-?7, ethyl chloride, phenylcin-
chonenic acid cinchophe7, salicylic acid, antabus, bromural, cardiamide,
dial, evipan sodium, phenacetin, formalin, glucose, hexamethylenetetramine,
histidine, insulin, codeine, novalgin, pabialgin, phanodnrn, "polocain,"
prominal, bismuth salts, mercury salts, sulfathiazol, sulfaguanidine, sya+.
thopholine, veronal, vitamin K, and glutamic acid.
The greatest of the achievements is the activiation and full mastery of
the production of crystalline penicillin and, in the near future, the pro-
duction of procaine and chloromycetin according to Poland's own method. The
constantly expending assortment will soon provide the country with vitamins
B, C. and E, adalin, antistine, benadryl, synthetic caffeine, heparin, folic
acid, pantothenic acid, progesterone, and synthetic theobromine.
The following table shows ,he consumption of some drugs during 1937
and 1951 (in kilograms):
Dr,,g
19
37
11951
Sodium diborate
1,676
4,000
Synthetic novocain
348
900
Phenacetin
4,023
9,000
Pyramidon
12,'837
21,000
Antipyrine
2,819
6,000
Antipyrineaderivatives
1,790
5,000
Caffeine
10,394
13,000
Barbiturates
2,633
3,000
in slsrp contrast to the prewaY private pharmaceutical factories, with thlAir
primitive equipment and methods, are the present modern Warsaw Pharmaceutical
Plants (Wsrszavskie Zaklady Farmaceutyczne) in Tarchomin, and other pharma-
ceutical plants in Jelenia Gore, Krakow, Poznan, and many other parts of
Poland. In these plants, valuable and new drugs are produced in bright and
spacious laboratories using new and efficient apparatus.
Polish science cooperates with the pharmaceutical industry; plants have
accurate formulas and responsible supervision over the quality of drugs.
The State Institute for Vegetable Raw Materials (Panstwowy Instytut
Surowcow Roslinnych) in Poznan, the Institute of Medicinals (Instytut Lekow)
in Warsaw, the Pharmaceutical Institute '(Instytut Farmaceutyczny) in Warsaw
are also concerned with the problem of drugs. The cor,letion of the work
of the Editorial Committee for the Third Polish Pharmacopoeia (Komitet
Redakcyjny III Farmakopei Polskiej) will also help expand the production
possibilities. Cooperation of science with the industry means new drug syn-
thesis and dependable quality. The testing laboratories of the pharmaceutical
plants are today bringing together famous scientists, chemists, and pharma-
ceutists so that the Polish pharmaceutical industry may expand, progress, and
be freed from imports.
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Raw materials and intermediates for the expansion of the pharmaceutical
industry are assured by the Six-Year Plan, which places the problem of the
expansion of the chemical industry in second place after heavy industry.
POLAND PRODUM SMM-11C CUMOMYCETJ -- London, Dziennik Polski, 20 Oct 52
Dr Janusz Supniewski, professor at the Jagiellonian University, has die-
covercd a simpler and cheaper method of producing chloromycetin through
chemical synthesis. Chloromycetin is supposed to be an ideal drug for typhoid
fever, and the first effective drug for typhus. Up to now, there was no anti-
typhus odrug, for the world-known Polish typhus vaccine of Professor Doctor
Welgl only prevents the possibility of contracting this disease, The Polish
press maintains that in case of a serious typhus epidemic, one with a mor-
tality rate of 28 percent, the use of chloromycetin would eliminate the death
of large numbers. in actual cases, patients have improved within 8 hours
after the first dosage of chloromycetin.
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