Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 1: Drugs & Food Control Organization (DFCO) today issued notices to six retail outlets for breaching the provisions of Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940 and disallowed their operations.
The action was taken during surprise checks of various retail outlets situated in Arnia, Salehar, Rathana Morh, Banechak, Laswara, Nandpur, Rehal and Khairi areas of Bishnah tehsil and some areas of Jammu tehsil.
The drive was conducted by a team of officers of DFCO under the supervision of Assistant Drugs Controller, Jammu. The action was taken against six erring firms namely M/s Arun Medical Centre, Bishnah; M/s Pooja Medicos, Natral; M/s Janta Medical Hall, Natral; M/s Anand Medicos, Bye Pass Road, Bishnah; M/s Veena Medical Hall, Palli Morh and M/s Chemist Corner.
Statutory drug samples of fifteen drug formulations viz Antibiotics, PPI, Steroid, NSAIDs etc were also drawn to check their identity, strength and purity. The samples were referred to State Drug Testing Laboratories for framing legal opinion to ascertain their quality parameters.
Stocks of Drugs more than Rs 30,000 were confiscated on spot as the same were found stocked in contraventions to the provisions of the Act. Custody permission these drugs were obtained from the Competent Court of Law.
Moreover, Operations of M/s True Care Pharmacy, Jewel, Jammu were disallowed pursuant to specific complaint received from Mohan Lal Sharma, SDPO Nagrota. Similarly, Licenses of M/s Samridhi Medical Hall, Bishnah and M/s Virander Vikram Medical Hall, Belicharana were suspended pursuant to the inputs received from SDPO R S Pura and SDPO Gandhi Nagar, respectively.
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