Wednesday, September 16, 2009

FOPE urges PM to amend Section 36AC of D&C Act to save genuine drug manufacturers

The Federation of Pharma Entrepreneurs (FOPE), a federation of around 700 drug manufacturing units in the tax-free zones of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, has urged Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to amend Section 36AC of the recently notified Drugs & Cosmetics Act to exclude licensed manufacturers from its provisions and also to amend 36AC(b) to make a distinction between offences relating to adulterate/spurious drugs and other offences of minor nature like substandard drugs.

The details can be read here.

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