Section 12. Detailmen, requirements, qualifications and fees. -

Any person who shall be employed as detailman by any pharmaceutical or drug laboratory or other manufacturers of medical, dental pharmaceutical, biological and veterinary products and by distributors, dealers or wholesalers of said products, doing business directly or indirectly in the Philippines, shall be required, at the beginning of each year, to register with the Board of Pharmacy that he is employed as such.

1. An applicant for registration shall be, preferably, a graduate of a college of pharmacy.

   There shall be an initial fee of twenty pesos upon registration and thereafter fifteen pesos shall be charged annually for renewal. Upon payment of said fees, the proper credential shall be issued to the applicant.

2. It shall be incumbent upon the drug establishments referred to in this section to require that detailmen employed or to be employed by them possess the necessary credentials issued by the Board of Pharmacy as provided for herein.

For purposes of this section, a detailman is one who represents any duly authorized manufacturer, dealer, distributor, representative or wholesaler of drugs, pharmaceuticals, biologic products and devices, whose primary duty is to introduce or reacquaint a product or products prepared, distributed or made by said manufacturers, dealer, distributor, representative or wholesaler to the physician, dentist, pharmacist, veterinarian or any other qualified person and which forms part of their program for promotion by describing its use, composition, action, dosage, administration, contra-indication, advantages and other salient information relative to said drug, pharmaceutical, biological product or device.