{"id":21951,"date":"2024-03-29T08:57:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T03:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21951"},"modified":"2025-04-06T16:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T10:56:23","slug":"drugs-and-cosmetics-act-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/drugs-and-cosmetics-act-1940\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u00a0regulates\u00a0the\u00a0import, manufacture, and sale or distribution of drugs and cosmetics through\u00a0licences and permits.<\/li>\n<li>Its main objective is to ensure that the drugs and cosmetics marketed in India are reliable, efficient, and in compliance with national standards.<\/li>\n<li>The associated\u00a0Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945, which were formulated in association with the 1940 Act, provide provisions for\u00a0classifying medications into schedules and instructions for the storage, sale, presentation, and prescription of each schedule.<\/li>\n<li>What is a drug?\n<ul>\n<li>A drug includes\u00a0medicines or medical devices for external or internal use for human beings or animals, and all substances intended to be used for or in the\u00a0diagnosis, treatment, mitigation, or\u00a0prevention of any disease or disorder\u00a0in human beings or animals.<\/li>\n<li>Drugs are extracts of certain plants, animal parts, herbs, or minerals. A drug is any\u00a0chemical substance (natural or man-made) that alters biological structure\u00a0or functioning when absorbed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What is a cosmetic?\u00a0The term cosmetic refers to\u00a0any substance or product used to rub, pour, sprinkle, or spray on, or introduce into, or otherwise apply to, the body or any part of any object\u00a0for cleansing, beautifying,\u00a0or\u00a0improving the appearance.<\/li>\n<li>bjectives:\n<ul>\n<li>The Act\u00a0oversees medication imports into India, ensuring that no substandard or counterfeit drugs enter the country.<\/li>\n<li>The Act\u00a0prohibits the production of inferior or counterfeit pharmaceuticals in the country.<\/li>\n<li>The Act requires\u00a0only qualified and competent\u00a0personnel to sell and distribute medicines,\u00a0as well as the\u00a0manufacture, sale,\u00a0and distribution\u00a0of Ayurvedic, Siddha, Unani, and Homeopathic drugs.<\/li>\n<li>The provisions of the Act control the import, manufacture, sale, and distribution of cosmetics.<\/li>\n<li>To have\u00a0drug inspectors\u00a0visit licensed premises regularly.<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring pharmaceutical and cosmetic\u00a0standards by collecting samples\u00a0and analyzing them in accredited laboratories.<\/li>\n<li>Creating distinctive regulations to\u00a0control the manufacture, standardization, and\u00a0storage of biological and special products, as well as prescribing how different types of drugs and cosmetics should be labelled and packed.<\/li>\n<li>To form a Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) and Drugs Consultative Committees (DCC) for allopathic and allied drugs, as well as cosmetics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Salient Features:\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0maximum penalty is\u00a0life imprisonment\u00a0and a\u00a0fine of Rs. 10 lakhs\u00a0or three times the\u00a0confiscated goods\u2019 value, whichever is greater.<\/li>\n<li>Other gazette officers, in addition to officers from the Drug Controller\u2019s Office,\u00a0are authorised to initiate prosecution under the Act; some of the offences are cognizable and non-bailable;<\/li>\n<li>Specialised courts for the trial of offences covered by the Act;<\/li>\n<li>Provision for the aggregation of minor offences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a cognizable offense?<\/h3>\n<p>A Cognizable offense or case is defined as the one which an officer in-charge of a police station may investigate without the order of a magistrate and effect arrest without warrant. The Police have a direct responsibility to take immediate action on the receipt of a complaint or of credible information in such crimes, visit the scene of the crime, investigate the facts, apprehend the offender and arraign him before a Court of law having jurisdiction over the matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livelaw.in\/supreme-court\/cognizance-of-offence-under-drugs-cosmetics-act-1940-cant-be-taken-based-on-police-officers-complaint-supreme-court-253512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Cognizance Of Offence Under Drugs &amp; Cosmetics Act 1940 Can&#8217;t Be Taken Based On Police Officer&#8217;s Complaint: Supreme Court<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, regulates the import, manufacture, and sale or distribution of drugs and cosmetics through licences and permits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}