“The process of adopting the bar code system for the medicines has already begun which will be on the lines of the coding system that exists in Pakistan to check the duplicate medicines”, said an official of DCGI. “The whole documents and the plan is submitted to the ministry which they are examining”. In an effort to counter the over-charging of medicines and sale of spurious drugs, India is all set to introduce a unique identification code system.
The country's drug regulatory authority, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), recently released a list of medicines, which included commonly used painkillers, antacid tablets and painkillers, that were found to be of substandard quality. This is going to be a technology-driven system. Pakistan’s drugs regulatory body has already implemented this system through which a customer can easily confirm whether a medicine is genuine or fake…
