Government has initiated the process of amending Drugs and Magic Remedies Act for bringing Ayush medicines under its purview so that selling them by making wrong claims and misguiding the public can be checked, Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
“The Government is in the process of bringing the amended Drugs and Magic Remedy Act. The law department has already approved it. Medicines sold through such advertisements while misguiding the public should be stopped,” Minister of State for Ayush Shripad Yesso Naik said during Question Hour. To a supplementary that advertisements making unrealistice claims are being used to sell products, he said, “It is true that there are advertisements of medicines making tall claims.”
“The complaint is true to an extent. It is the State Government that checks this and the Drugs Controller helps states implement the law.”
The Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954 controls advertising of drugs in India and prohibits advertisements of drugs and remedies that claim to have magical properties, and makes doing so a cognizable offence.