Manturov called the condition for excluding Johnson & Johnson from the list of parallel imports

The decision to include the products of the American company Johnson & Johnson in the list of parallel imports has been made and will not change until the company proves its presence and maintains direct supplies of lenses, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said at the final board of the ministry.

“When our distributors are satisfied and confirm that fellow manufacturers of Johnson & Johnson maintain their presence and direct supply, we will always take the opposite decision and remove the Johnson & Johnson brand from the list of these products,” said minister (quoted by Prime)

May 26 Ministry of Industry and Trade promised within two weeks, add contact lenses from manufacturers Johnson & Johnson, Alcon Laboratories Inc. to the list of parallel imports. and Bausch & Lomb. The department then allowed an exclusion from the list of these products in the future, while maintaining official deliveries.

Prior to this, Johnson & Johnson warned partners about the suspension of contact lens imports to Russia. Ministry of Industry and Trade against this background declaredthat Russian enterprises have free capacities to establish the production of these products.

Roszdravnadzor pointed outthat there are no signs of a shortage of contact lenses in Russia. Moreover, the press service of the federal service said that last fall, Johnson & Johnson LLC (representative of Johnson & Johnson Vision Caer, Inc. in the Russian Federation) informed the department about the planned withdrawal from the assortment of one type of contact lenses (1-Day Acuvue True with Hydraclear 1). But at the same time, product deliveries continued until the end of the first quarter of 2023.