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The government on Friday banned 14 fixed-dose combination (FDC) medicines as they have been found to lack therapeutic justification and have been recommended to be banned by an expert panel...
According to the government notification, the expert Committee recommended that there is no therapeutic justification" for these FDC and they may involve "risk" to human beings...
"Hence, in the larger public interest, it is necessary to prohibit the manufacture, sale or distribution of this FDC under section 26 A of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940," the notification said...
The government said that the decision to ban the FDCs was taken following the recommendations of the Expert Committee and the Drugs Technical Advisory Board..
"The Central Government is satisfied that it is necessary and expedient in public interest to regulate by way of prohibition the manufacture for sale, sale and distribution for human use of the said drug in the country"...
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