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India’s Phytopharmaceutical Rules: 4-Marker Standard for Herbals - India regulates plant-based medicines through three legally separate doors, and only one of them is treated like a modern drug. That door is the phytopharmaceutical category — a purified, standardised plant fraction that must be characterised by at least four bioactive markers before CDSCO will look at it as a therapeutic. A review published in […]
Only 5 of 16 States Onboard CDSCO SUGAM Labs Quality Portal - Just 5 of the 16 states and union territories that applied to be onboarded on the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) SUGAM Labs portal have actually completed the process. India’s drug regulator confirmed the gap in a fresh letter to all state and UT drug controllers, asking them to speed up registration and nominate […]
CDSCO Halt Order Ignored: Dehradun Plant Runs 4 Months On - In July 2026, a joint inspection team from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) and the Uttarakhand State Licensing Authority walked into a pharmaceutical plant in Dehradun’s Selaqui industrial area and recommended that all manufacturing stop immediately. Four months later, the plant is still operating, and there is no public record that anyone acted […]
What 80% Batch Release Delays Reveal About Indian Pharma Quality - Nearly four in five pharmaceutical manufacturing professionals in India say open investigations are holding up drug batch releases, according to a white paper released in early November 2026. The finding matters well beyond the factory floor: a batch that cannot be released on time is a batch that does not reach the market — and […]

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The India Medicine Sales & Distribution Association ( IMSDA ) represents 24 leading research-based Indian pharmaceutical companies. IMSDA plays the role of a catalyst role in shaping policy framework to unlock and unleash the potential of the Indian pharmaceutical industry in line with the national priorities