India needs a federal drug regulatory system for uniform implementation of drug laws and elimination of NSQ drugs from market: Study
A single Drug Regulatory System under a federal set-up for the nation may solve all the drawbacks that plague the present drugs control administrations in the central and states. It will also eliminate the pan India presence of Not-of-Standard-Quality (NSQ) drugs which pose a challenge to regulators all over India, a research study has found. As a permanent solution to this technical snag, the central and state drugs control administrations (CDSCO and state DCAs) should merge into one single entity under the federal set up of the constitution, the study finds. The study on Indian drug regulatory system was carried out by an assistant drugs control officer, Dr. Khalid Ahmed Khan, of the regulatory department of Karnataka as part of his research work on Ph D thesis. Dr H G Shiva Kumar, head of department of pharmaceuticals at JSS University, was Ahmmed Khan's guide for the research. The thesis was accepted by the department of pharmaceutics of the JSS College of Pharmacy ...