Foods and pharmaceuticals play important roles in public health and welfare, and ensuring that these products meet their quality assurance standards is a top priority in health and medical care. Quality assurance of products is a fundamental philosophy lies in pharmaceutical science, and it started with evaluating and assuring quality of natural medicines. 
Prior to the announcement of the report by the subcommittee of clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences in Science Council of Japan, the subcommittee conducted a questionnaire survey about the university lectures on quality assurance of foods and pharmaceuticals to all the faculty of pharmaceutical sciences (75 schools) in Japan. We received the answers from 60 schools and the result was published by Prof. Komatsu in “Yakugaku Zasshi, 141(6), 2021”. In the questionnaire there were 13 essential items as contents of lecture. Of them, regulatory science, borderline of pharmaceuticals to non-pharmaceuticals, quality assurance of foods, chemistry, manufacturing and control (CMC), definition of quality, and classification of pharmaceuticals were not lectured in 37%, 20%, 25%, 48%, 20% and 20% of schools, respectively; however, the quality assurance is a basic philosophy for a pharmacist. 
Very low achievement ratio of the lectures for the above-mentioned items may be due to the lack of description about them in the “model core curriculum for pharmacy education”. In this symposium I would like to introduce the report based on the questionnaire survey and describe the need of reforming pharmaceutical education.