Policy & Regulation

On lines of packaged food products, cosmetics and toiletries like face wash, soaps, shampoos and toothpastes will soon carry a brown/red...

• Cosmetics
• Policy
• Packaging

As per the programme, 300,000 solar street lights will be installed throughout the country with special emphasis on areas where there is no facility for street lighting systems through grid power, North Eastern States and Left Wing Extremism (LWE)...

• Solar
• Policies

If an additional 25% tariff is imposed by China to counterattack Trump’s trade war, the tariff of the denatured ethanol imported from the U.

• Tariff
• Denatured Ethanol

The group has also received final approval to market Omeprazole and Sodium Bicarbonate Capsules, 20 mg/1,100 mg and 40 mg/1,100 mg, used...

The group has also received final approval to market Omeprazole and Sodium Bicarbonate Capsules, 20 mg/1,100 mg and 40 mg/1,100 mg, used...

• Zydus Cadila
• USFDA

Prices of around 850 essential drugs are capped by the government. The drug price regulator, National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), revises these prices annually based on the wholesale price index (WPI).

Prices of around 850 essential drugs are capped by the government. The drug price regulator, National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), revises these prices annually based on the wholesale price index (WPI).

• Drug
• policy

India last month levied anti-dumping duty on imports of phosphorus pentoxide from China, which followed a series of similar duties on ne...

• Anti-dumping

It permits the production of biofuels from a more diverse range of agri-inputs and wastes, and is an attempt to move to second-generation fuels that do not compete with the food chain.

• Biofuel
• Challenge

The drug uses proprietary SoluMatrix Fine Particle Technology to create a micronized formulation of abiraterone acetate tablets in combi...

• Sun

While the true number of substances that could potentially be registered under REACH was always unknowable, there hasbeen concern in som...

• REACH
• Chemical
• Registration

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is looking at global models adopted by various countries for labelling standards of packaged foods. This is being done before the Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Regulations, 2018,

• Food
• Regulations

Industry has learned a lot about their own supply chains, improved visibility and confidence in their portfolio of chemicals, and potent...

• Chemical
• REACH

The HFPA rebuttal came in a letter sent recently to New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, USTR, secretary of commerce ...

Lowing tariffs on daily consumer goods is a choice China made on its own, said Keqiang at the State Council executive meeting.

• Import
• Clothing
• July

For example, the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) perceives fragrances that are intended to be applied to a person's body as cosmetics. In the Middle East, they are termed as only 'perfumes'.

• Fragrance
• Middle East

Methylergonovine is a semi-synthetic ergot alkaloid used for the prevention and control of postpartum haemorrhage.

• USFDA
• Haemorrhage

In a recent notification, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said the deadline for the implementation, of the system that aims to maintain “parent-child relationship in packaging levels and its uploading on central portal,” was being extended

The matter is significant in view of the growing interest of Indian drugmakers in the Chinese market, with active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) forming the bulk of exports. Pharma exports to China registered a 37% increase, from $145-mn in FY17...

• Pharmexcil
• China
• Pharma

The association is offering the possibility of sharing its stall (P77 in Hall 4.1) with its members for audio-visual presentations, displaying posters, brochures etc. at a nominal cost.

• TTA
• ACHEMA