Health ministry to amend Rule 96 of D&C Rules to streamline labeling requirements of iron tablets and polio drops
The Union health ministry will soon amend Rule 96 of the Drugs and Cosmetics (D&C) Rules to streamline labeling requirements of iron tablets and polio drops to provide requisite information to the consumer. The proposal to amend Rule 96 of the D&C Rules, 1945 for labeling of iron tablets and polio drops distributed to the children under government programmes with name and expiry date in Hindi also was deliberated at the Drug Technical Advisory Board (DTAB)'s 78th meeting. In order to do the same, the ministry had constituted a sub-committee under the chairmanship of Indian Medical Association (IMA) Secretary General Dr RN Tandon to examine and give recommendations for streamlining the labeling requirements of drugs. The sub-committee members and co-opted experts, as per the terms of references, examined the feasibility of printing the name of medicine and expiry date in Hindi on label of the drug products and submitted the minutes of meetings along with recomm...