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Last year, in Latvia's legal medicines supply chain, through pharmacies and healthcare institutions, the residents received only safe prescription medicines and omeprazole, which were verified in the medicines verification system – slightly more than 28 million checked packages reached the population.

The Latvian Medicines Verification Organization (LZVO) in the fourth issue of the Newsletter (January 2023) looks back at the year 2022 – the performance indicators of the LZVS in the 4th quarter of 2022 and the year as whole and highlights the current events of 2023.

Summarizing what was done in 2022 and outlining the plans for 2023, the European Medicines Verification Organisation (EMVO) in cooperation with the National Medicines Verification Organisations has published the EMVS Community Newsletter – 2022 Holiday Bulletin edition. In this bulletin, Inese Erdmane, Chairwoman of the Board at the Latvian Medicines Verification Organisation (LZVO), also talks about this year's achievements.

On November 30, 2022, a General Assembly meeting of stakeholders of the Latvian Medicines Verification Organisation (LZVO) was held, where the strategy and budget for 2023 were approved.

The European Medicines Verification Organization (EMVO) has launched a Newsletter, which introduces to the criteria that allow the identification of the "critical countries" of the system, tells about Romania's verification experience and other current issues of the system.

In the nine months of this year, 20.5 million medicine packages were checked against falsification from the medicines purchased by citizens in pharmacies or used by patients in healthcare institutions. This is 8% more than in the same period of last year, according to data from the Latvian Medicines Verification Organization (LZVO).