Six medical shops raided

Ludhiana, August 27

Two teams of drug control officials conducted a raid on chemists in the BRS Nagar area. The aim behind the raids was to ensure implementation of provisions of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940.

The teams comprised drug control officials Rupinder Kaur, Amarjit Singh, Gundeep Bansal and Rohit Kalra. Raids was supervised by Dinesh Gupta, Zonal Licensing Authority, Ludhiana.

Six chemists were inspected. During inspection, five types of samples were taken for test and analysis. The samples will be sent to Government Analyst Punjab for testing to check the quality of medicines/cosmetics. During inspection, three firms were found violating provisions of law. Show-cause notices will be issued to the firms.

In future also, such raids will be conducted to eliminate the availability of sub-standard drugs and habit- forming drugs in Ludhiana, said Dr Pardeep Mohindra, Civil Surgeon, Ludhiana, and also instructed all chemists to comply with provisions of the Act and rules and also appealed customers to purchase medicines on bills.