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To curb the menace of spurious medicines, the government is finalising the process of mandating pharmaceutical companies to print bar code on the packages of 300 drug formulations so that information such as manufacturing licence and batch number can be accessed upon scanning.
The amendments to Drugs and Cosmetic Rules, 1945 which, once approved, will come into force from May next year.
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