{"id":241580,"date":"2023-05-09T20:33:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T15:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=241580"},"modified":"2023-05-09T20:33:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T15:03:40","slug":"the-lack-of-a-drug-recall-law-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-lack-of-a-drug-recall-law-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"The lack of a drug recall law in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cThe lack of a drug recall law in India<\/strong>\u201d published in The Hindu <\/strong>on\u00a09th<\/sup> May 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Governance \u2013 Government Policies & Interventions in Various Sectors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>concerns over drug recall law<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: A multinational pharmaceutical company has recently recalled its drugs by issuing a public notice in newspapers in India, alerting people about a mislabeled batch of the medicine that it had accidentally shipped to the market.<\/p>\n

Does India have a drug recall law?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

T<\/strong>he law in the US requires pharmaceutical companies to recall those drugs batches from the market those have failed to meet quality parameters.<\/p>\n

However, India does not have any such law in the present<\/strong> and it has been considering the creation of a mandatory recall law for substandard drugs since 1976.<\/p>\n

In 1976, the Drugs Consultative Committee along with the officials from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), discussed the issue of drug recalls.<\/p>\n

The issue, drugs being sold in another state while it has been recalled in one state, was discussed.<\/p>\n

The need for greater cooperation between various state drug controllers to facilitate better coordination was decided in the meeting.<\/p>\n

However, this decision never translated into amending the Drugs and Cosmetics Act<\/strong> to create a legally binding structure to enforce such recalls.<\/p>\n

In 2012, certain recall guidelines were published by the CDSCO<\/strong> but they lacked the force of law.<\/p>\n

What is the significance of a drug recall law?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Substandard drugs have adverse health consequences which may also lead to deaths of children.<\/p>\n

In India, almost every month, dozens of drugs fail random testing in government laboratories and there was also news about Indian drugs failures overseas. These drugs require to be recalled in a transparent manner.<\/p>\n

Why is there no drug recall law in India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

First,<\/strong> the Union Health Ministry’s Drug Regulation Section is unprepared to deal with complicated drug regulatory issues<\/strong>. It focuses more on supporting the pharmaceutical industry’s expansion than safeguarding public health.<\/p>\n

Second,<\/strong> India has a highly fragmented regulatory structure.<\/strong> Each State has its own drug regulator. This enables pharmaceutical companies to sell drugs in another state where there is no such restriction.<\/p>\n

Therefore, to create an effective recall mechanism, the responsibility of recalling drugs must be centralized, with power under one authority.<\/p>\n

However, both the pharmaceutical industry and state drug regulators have resisted greater centralisation of regulatory powers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Third,<\/strong> the drug recall system will bring public attention to the conditions of India\u2019s pharmaceutical industry. Therefore, there has been consistent opposition to such laws.<\/p>\n

Must Read: <\/strong>Can a centralized regulation help drug quality?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cThe lack of a drug recall law in India\u201d published in The Hindu on\u00a09th May 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Governance \u2013 Government Policies & Interventions in Various Sectors Relevance: concerns over drug recall law News: A multinational pharmaceutical company has recently recalled its drugs by issuing a… Continue reading The lack of a drug recall law in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-241580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}