CDSCO enforces stricter standards for pharmaceutical raw materials following fatal cough syrup incidents

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : The regulator has asked the states to intimate it about action taken in this regard.
52% : "All the state/ UT drug controllers are requested to take measures to ensure testing before the manufacture and release of the batch to the market by way of monitoring during inspections, sensitising the manufacturers through circulars, etc." As per drugs rules, the licensee shall either in his own laboratory or in any laboratory approved by the licensing authority test each batch or lot of the raw material used by him for the manufacture of his product and also each batch of the final product and shall maintain records or registers showing the particulars in respect of such tests, it noted.

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