The
company had recently launched an ayurvedic medicine, named Coronil
|
Dehradun(Agencies):The
Uttarakhand government is issuing a notice to yoga guru Ramdev's Patanjali for
launching a drug claiming to be a cure for coronavirus when it had only applied
for an immunity booster against cough and fever, an official said on Wednesday.
State Ayurved Department's
licence officer Y S Rawat said the notice is being issued to the firm to
explain from where it got the permission to launch a "corona kit" as
a cure of the virus.
"Patanjali Ayurveda Ltd
had the licence only for manufacturing an immunity booster against cough and
fever. There was nothing in their application related to the treatment of
coronavirus," the officer said.
"We did receive an
application from Patanjali on June 10. The application was approved after
examination by a panel on June 12 but the firm had the permission to
manufacture only two-three drugs as immunity booster against cough and fever,
and not a drug for coronavirus," he added.
The company had recently
launched an ayurvedic medicine, named Coronil, claiming that it cures coronavirus.
The notice will be sent to the
firm under Rule 170 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, which makes it
mandatory for companies to advertise any product in print and electronic media
only with the permission from the state licensing authority, Rawat said.
It was also not legal to claim
that the product was a cure for coronavirus without prior permission of the
department, the official said.
No comments:
Post a Comment