Crackdown on firms involved in sale, storage of medicines in Puducherry

The Department of Drugs Control, Puducherry, has cancelled the licence and sealed respective companies for usurpation of statutory provisions relating to the sale, retention and organisation of pharmaceutical products successful the Union Territory.

Licences of companies, including Lorven Pharmaceuticals astatine Thirubhuvanaipalayam, Sri Amman Pharma astatine Kali Pappati Shopping Complex, Villianur Bahour Main Road, Meenakshi Pharma astatine Dhanakodi Nagar, Dharmapuri, New Jersy Life at Singrikudi Road, Abishegapakkam, Parm House, Chetty Street and Srisun Pharma, Chetty Street, person been cancelled. These were the pharma companies functioning successful Puducherry aft obtaining licence from the department, an authoritative merchandise present said.

The section has besides sealed unlicensed premises, specified arsenic Ambal Golden Capsules, Golden Capsules and unnamed godowns meant for manufacturing and storing medicines astatine Mettupalayam Industrial Estate, Thavalakuppam, Poornankuppam and Kurumbapet villages. The firms and godowns person been sealed for violations and finished products, instrumentality and materials utilized for packaging person been seized. The crackdown was initiated successful the archetypal 2 weeks of this period pursuing circumstantial inputs, the merchandise said.