Drugs Controller Told to Filter Out ‘Cocktail Drugs’ from Indian Market, Ban Likely Soon | News18
The central government has told the country’s apex drugs controller to regulate the market of fixed-dose combination drugs in India – an issue pending for several months now. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation, the office of the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), has already started working on this and the ban on these “cocktail drugs” may be announced within a month, ministry officials said.
Fixed-dose combinations (FDCs) are medicines that combine more than one drug in a single pill, and are also referred to as “cocktail” medicines. “The ministry of health and family welfare has told the drug controller general of India (DCGI) to act on the list of cocktail medicines, which have proven to contain irrational drug combinations,” a senior ministry official told News18.
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