CDSCO brings in guidelines and SOPs on compounding of offences
New Delhi: The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has released the guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) related to the compounding of offences under the Drugs and Cosmetics (Compounding…
DoP includes member of HTAIn in expert committee on pricing of drugs
New Delhi: Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) has added an expert representative from the Health Technology Assessment of India (HTAIn) under the Department of Health Research (DHR) as a member of…
Almost 85% of overcharged amount claimed by NPPA yet to be recovered
New Delhi: India’s drug price monitoring and enforcing authority, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), has almost 85 per cent of the amount it demanded from the pharma industry on…
India Launches SHRESTH Index to Strengthen State Drug Regulatory Systems
New Delhi: Union Health Secretary, Smt. Punya Salila Srivastava virtually launched the State Health Regulatory Excellence Index (SHRESTH), a first-of-its-kind national initiative to benchmark and strengthen state drug regulatory systems…
52.4% of Herbal Products did not conform to the standards of the US Pharmacopeia, samples exceeded microbiological limits: ICMR-NIN Study
Hyderabad: A microbiological risk assessment by the Indian Council of Medical Research’s National Institute of Nutrition found that a majority of herbal formulations sold in Hyderabad contain bacterial contamination exceeding…
Gang making fake health supplements busted in Muzaffarnagar, two arrested
Muzaffarnagar: Khalapar police station has taken a major action and exposed a gang manufacturing fake health supplements in the name of international brands. Police have recovered goods worth about Rs…
Bulk Drugs And Drug Intermediates Exports Grow 13.6% In 2022-23
New Delhi : Even as the overall pharmaceutical exports from the country has registered around six per cent growth in 2022-23 as compared to the previous year, the exports of bulk…
Top Drugmakers Bet On Trade Generics To Grow Beyond Metros
Mumbai : Trade generics is seeing a lot of action in recent times with the entry of large domestic pharmaceutical companies, who want to expand beyond metros and other top…
Med stores in Odisha’s Angul sealed for dealing in spurious drugs
CUTTACK: A Special Task Force (STF) of the Drug Enforcement Squad on Thursday sealed Maa Budhi Medicine Store, a retail outlet at Kadampadia and Ganapati Enterprisers, a wholesale medicine firm at…
