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Pharmexcil adds information on regulatory procedures for Ayush products of 5 more countries to its database
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Suja Nair Shirodkar
August 28 , 2015
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In a major development aimed at pushing the exports of the Ayush sector,
the Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council of India (Pharmexcil) has
recently updated and added regulatory data for Ayush products of five
more countries for the benefit of the sector. With this addition, the
Council has till now developed an extensive database on regulatory
procedures from 10 countries, which are bifurcated country and region
wise, along with various schemes of government of India meant for
promoting exports of herbal and Ayush products.
It is understood
that the Council is also working to upload all the information on a sub
domain for the benefit of all the companies. Based on the response
received from members, the Council has compiled information on
regulatory and registration procedures for herbal and Ayush products for
another five countries, namely Kenya, Kuwait, Pakistan, Oman and
Cambodia.
The Council has already made available details of the
process adopted in five countries, namely Tanzania, Philippines, Ghana,
Canada and Bahrain. Dr P V Appaji, director general of Pharmexcil
informed that based on the proactive response from all the stakeholders,
his office has also started the process of assimilating relevant
information on the other important export destinations as well to
support the industry and ease their troubles.
To address the
concerns of the Ayush sector and help the units overcome export hurdles
when dealing with regulatory and drug registry process in other
countries, the Council had initiated this process over a month back.
This strategic move comes after the industry highlighted its plight over
the challenges being faced by them while registering herbal products
with DDA Nepal and Sri Lanka among others.
The data base consists
of regulatory information of the countries like specified guidelines
for application for registration of traditional, herbal medicines and
food dietary supplements; their requirements for labeling of products;
new fees and charges etc. For further enhancing exporters confidence,
they are also putting the details of application form required by
certain countries for foreign manufacturers good manufacturing practices
(GMP) inspection.
In another move aimed at supporting and
addressing the issues of the exporters, the Council recently had a high
level meeting with the stakeholders in Delhi to gauge and understand
their export related queries. Following which several key issues
affecting the sector were submitted to the department of commerce and
department of Ayush.
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