Centre forms 8-member panel for new Drugs, Cosmetics, Medical Devices Act

Committee will frame draft Bill and submit it by November 30

The Centre has formed a committee to frame new laws for framing new laws for drugs, cosmetics and medical devices. Medical devices are now ‘treated’ as drugs for the purpose of regulation by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO). But a new Act is the need of the hour as the existing Drugs and Cosmetics Act is one of 1940.

According to an internal order, seen by Business Standard, the eight member committee will prepare a new Drugs, Cosmetics and Medical Devices Bill so that a Drugs, Cosmetics and Medical Devices Act can be framed. The committee headed by