American Journal of Ethnomedicine

Review and evaluation of regulatory process in not of standard quality drugs in India in comparison with Europe and USA

Joint Event on 3^rd World Congress on NATURAL PRODUCTS CHEMISTRY AND RESEARCH & 12^th WORLD PHARMA CONGRESS
October 16-18, 2017 Budapest, Hungary

Umesh S, H V Raghunandan and Balamuralidhara V

JSS University, India

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Am J Ethnomed

DOI: 10.21767/2348-9502-C1-003

Abstract

Not of standard quality drugs may end up in the status of not meeting the compendial requirements or standards as prescribed. India has pharmaceutical regulatory policy to handle such cases. There is a need to compare with the regulation procedure of FDA’s of countries like USA, Australia, Singapore, European Union and other countries, is of vital importance, for incorporation of better regulatory procedures, if any, into our system. This process will help India to come up with various newer innovated processes followed in the western world to adopt. This in turn will help the country to carve a better draft policy to counter the not of standards medicine and pharmaceuticals. The Drugs and Cosmetic Act 1940 and rules 1945 has provision to deal with such kind of issues, however there is a need to design newer methodology and process to identify, regulate, enforce not of standard quality pharmaceutical products. The Indian pharmaceuticals market is the third largest in terms of volume and thirteenth largest in terms of value, as per a report by equity master. India is the largest provider of generic drugs globally with the Indian generics accounting for 20% of global exports in terms of volume. Of late, consolidation has become an important characteristic of the Indian pharmaceutical market as the industry is highly fragmented. With 70% of market share (in terms of revenues), generic drugs form the largest segment of the Indian pharmaceutical sector. India supply 20% of global generic medicines market exports in terms of volume, making the country the largest provider of generic medicines globally and expected to expand even further in coming years. Over the Counter (OTC) medicines and patented drugs constitute 21% and 9%, respectively, of total market revenues of US$ 20 billion. The major challenges of these regulatory agencies and organizations around the world are to ensure the safety, quality and efficacy of medicines and medical devices, harmonization of legal procedures related to drug development, monitoring and ensuring compliance with statutory obligations. They also play a vital role to ensure and increase regulatory implementation in non-regulated parts of the world for safety of people residing there. The present study describes a brief review of various regulatory bodies of major developed and developing countries and the scope and challenges of such regulatory organizations in drug development and delivery of safe and effective healthcare products to individuals around the world.

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