How can countries foster pharmaceutical innovation without making life-saving medicines inaccessible? India’s experience offers a compelling answer and in 2025, the country will mark 20 years since it ...

India’s drug regulator CDSCO flagged 186 medicines, including paracetamol and diabetes drugs, as substandard in May 2025, raising serious concerns about drug safety and manufacturing practices.

India bans manufacture and sale of 35 painkillers, nutrition supplements, anti-diabetics drugs The ban was issued after the regulator found that some FDC drugs were licensed for manufacture, sale ...

This has resulted in a lack of uniform enforcement of the provision of NDCT Rules 2019 under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940 across the country, the letter pointed out.

The Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940 gives the state drug inspectors the power to call for sales records (S. 18A & S.18B) of the NSQ batch and seize the NSQ drugs [S. 22 (c)] so that they cannot be ...

India's beauty sector's prosperity is a testimony to changing consumer behavior, especially among working women who contribute significantly to the cosmetics market.

Regulation of cosmetics and personal care chemicals in India is undertaken by the Drugs and Cosmetics Act of 1940 and subsequent rules and regulations, such as the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules of 1945.

Schedule M is a part of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act of 1945 that outlines Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for pharmaceutical products in India.

The Drug and Cosmetics Act of 1940 was meant to safeguard public health, but its poor enforcement has allowed antibiotic misuse and counterfeit drugs to flourish, warns Zagade.

DCGI frames rules for imported cosmetics “The meeting was organized to discuss the issues that cosmetic industry is facing. Generally, cosmetics have always been under the Drugs and Cosmetic Act.

The Drugs and Cosmetics Act has been amended to impose stricter penalties for the manufacture of such drugs, making certain offences cognisable and non-bailable.