The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has been monitoring the supply and demand of cold medicines since March. The targets for monitoring are NSAIDs and Expectorants such as complex cold medicines, Acetaminophen, Ibuprofen, Dexibuprofen, Loxoprofen, and Erdosteine. When pharmaceutical companies computer-report the production (import), sales, and inventory of products to the Drug Safety Country's Weekly Production and Import Status Report system, they have identified cold drugs in circulation and encouraged them to produce insufficient or unproduced items. However, there was a big difference between the results of monitoring the supply and demand status and the distribution of cold medicines felt at the front-line pharm