Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
pharmexcil, an association of exporters and traders of medicine in India, held a discussion with the Union ministry of commerce, in the last week of February, to resolve the issue of Nigerian government blacklisting some 12 Indian pharmaceutical companies. Nigeria's Food and Drug Administration blacklisted some Indian manufacturers in March …
experts advocate the use of a new drug meloxicam to save the dwindling number of white-backed vultures, a rare South Asian variety. Many of them reckon nearly 95 per cent of these birds have gone missing after the anti-inflamatory drug diclofenac was introduced in 1994. The drug is prescribed to …
A patent application filed in India by the Swiss pharmaceutical company, Novartis ag, has been rejected. The company had filed for an Indian patent for the crystalline version of their off-patent anti-cancer drug, Gleevec. Rejecting the application, the office of the controller general of patents, designs and trademarks in Chennai …
A blast at an illegal pharmaceutical unit in Solan in Himachal Pradesh recently has brought the issue of safety and pollution in residential areas to the forefront. The January 18, 2006, blast shook the nearby buildings, one of which developed cracks. Numerous illegal pharmaceutical units are situated amid the town's …
effluents from a pharmaceutical unit have become a major cause of concern for Nilgiri district of Tamil Nadu. Sterling Biotech (sb), located in Solayur village, produces gelatin and di-calcium phosphate from animal bones. It is owned by Rallis India Limited, which is a Tata enterprise. To wash the bones, sb …
in a sudden turn-around, Roche Holding ag recently granted Hetero Drugs Limited (hdl), Hyderabad, a sub-licence to manufacture and market Oseltamivir (generic Tamiflu), one of the two effective drugs against bird flu. This is the first time such a sub-licence has been granted under the new Indian patent legislation, 2005, …
An effort to regulate drug prices, through measures "other than price control', has been wasted. A task force (tf) set up as per Supreme Court (sc) recommendations to find ways to reduce prices of life-saving drugs, could not come up with many viable solutions. The tf had representatives from the …
The Task Force on Recombinant Pharma sector, constituted in 2004 by the Union ministry of environment and forests (moef), submitted its final report to moef on September 13, 2005. The team was entrusted with recommending a transparent and streamlined regulatory mechanism for the use of Living Modified Organisms (lmos) in …
A bill has been introduced in the us Senate that imposes the burden of proving the safety of chemicals present in consumer goods on their manufacturers. The Child, Worker and Consumer-Safe Chemicals Bill 2005, also referred to as the Kid Safe Chemicals Act, was introduced recently by six legislators
As the monsoon arrives in Chhattisgarh, people living along the state's rivers start looking for the red velvet mite (Trombidium species). A tiny insect found in the wastelands, the red mite is prized as a source of medicine and sold as such in far off Benaras and other cities across …
deep sea genetic resources need to be protected from excessive commercial exploitation for pharmaceutical or industrial applications, warns a report by the United Nations University
a public hearing on 52 illegal bulk drug and pharmaceutical companies operating in Andhra Pradesh's Medak district was a lesson in how dissent gets thwarted. The meeting on April 11-13, 2005 was conducted more than 10 years after these factories were allowed to operate by the state Pollution Control Board …
a serious question mark has been raised on the quality of baby products manufactured by multinational Johnson and Johnson (j&j;). The Mumbai-based Food and Drug Administration (fda) has detected that the j&j; baby oil has light liquid paraffin (mineral oil) as its base. Mineral oil cannot be absorbed by the …
a war that started early this year between the government and India's chemists and druggists over drugs containing psychotropic substances (psds) is about to end. After receiving assurance from the government, the latter have agreed to suspend their protest ban on the sale of psds and make them available to …
Fighting for animal rights is a crime. At least the British think so. As part of the Serious and Organised Crime Bill, the government recently proposed up to five years of jail sentences for animal rights activists who impede the use of animals in medical research. "The simple fact is …
The idea that food has therapeutic value is not a new one. Ayurveda, for instance, recommends diet regimes based on seasons and on an individual's constitution (see box: Take cues from traditional wisdom). And it's not just this ancient system of medicine. Traditional communities in most countries had dietary practices …
