What is Drugs and Cosmetics Act?

The Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 regulates the import, manufacture and sale or distribution of drugs and cosmetics through licences and permits. 

 

The Department of Health under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare approved the Act after the Governor-General gave the assent on April 10, 1940, and the Act came into the effect on April 1, 1947.

A drug includes medicines or medical devices for external or internal use for human beings or animals and all substances intended to be used for or in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation prevention of any disease or disorder in human beings or