To tackle fake drugs, the Union health ministry will soon mandate barcodes or QR codes on certain medicines. This applies to antimicrobials...

The drug regulator is also considering setting up a joint task force for fighting the menace of spurious and adulterated drugs in the count...

The government on Friday extended the date for implementation of the track and trace system for exports of drug formulations till February ...

The decision is applicable for both non-SSI (small scale industry) and SSI-manufactured drugs.

The Commerce Ministry today said it has extended the dates for putting track and trace system on the consignments of drug formulations.

India had exported medicines worth $15.2 billion (about Rs 97,000 crore) in 2014-15, an increase of 5% over the previous year’s figure.

Bar-coding of mono cartons, which hold primary packs of drugs, will enable them to be traced back to the source, the ministry of commerce s...

"Track and Trace software has been developed for authentication of drugs manufactured in India," Health Minister J P Nadda said.

Barcode helps in tracking and tracing origin of drugs, which minimises the chances of genuine medicines being considered spurious, sub-stan...

Adopting sophisticated technologies to print unique product identification code on primary packaging involved huge and unwarranted capital ...

The govt has introduced self -certification for bar coding of secondary and tertiary level packaging of drugs in order to simply the export...

In a move to simplify barcode procedures for pharma cos, the govt has decided to treat mono cartons containing medicines also as primary le...

The govt has extended the deadline for one more year to affix barcodes on primary level packaging by pharma companies till July 2014.

Prescription drugs will soon need to carry an authorised number that can authenticate the product in the Indian market where 20% medicines ...

In June, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said that from July 2012, medicines exported from India would be required to have ...

Indian drugmakers are set to appeal in the Allahabad high court against the drug regulator's plans to make it mandatory for every medicine ...

The government has made it mandatory for drugmakers to carry a barcode on every product exported out of the country to put an end to allega...