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No endangering kids

  • 30/05/2005

The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA), on May 5, 2005, decided to ask Johnson and Johnson India (J&J), Wipro and other companies manufacturing baby products to prominently display warnings regarding the side effects of all ingredients contained in the products on their labels. The companies have also been forbidden from making claims about health benefits from their products without the approval of the drug controller general of India, for which they have time till August 1, 2005.

Assistant commissioner FDA, Mumbai, C G Kurunkar says the sale of these products will not be allowed without this approval. "But we have no objection to their sale if the word

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