{"id":302889,"date":"2018-09-18T05:23:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T05:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302889"},"modified":"2018-09-18T05:23:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T05:23:05","slug":"supreme-court-revokes-ban-on-sale-of-saridon-two-other-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/supreme-court-revokes-ban-on-sale-of-saridon-two-other-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court revokes ban on sale of Saridon, two other drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_302590\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302590\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/health-ministry-bans-328-fixed-dose-combination-drugs-including-saridon\/fdc\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-302590\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-302590\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fdc-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/fdc-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/fdc.jpg 669w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court has temporarily revoked the ban imposed on the sale of Saridon and two other drugs after the government had banned 328 combination drugs last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The apex court order comes in wake of a petition filed by the drug makers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A SC bench of Justice Rohinton Nariman and Justice Indu Malhotra temporarily allowed the sale of Saridon, and two other drugs after the drug makers and pharma associations challenged recent notification issued by the Centre prohibiting the manufacture and sale of 328 Fixed Dose Combinations (FDCs) drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">SC allows the sale of Piramal Healthcare\u2019s Saridon, GlaxoSmithKline\u2019s Piriton and Juggat Pharma\u2019s Dart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Major pharma companies while challenging the centre&#8217;s decision claimed that the only reason given in the government&#8217;s notification was that the combination had &#8220;no therapeutic value&#8221;. They argued in the court that they are making the medicines since 1980s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The apex court said the stay on the centre&#8217;s notification, banning these three drugs, remains till it decides on the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The SC, however, did not grant any relief to the other medicines falling in the list of 328 FDC drugs, which were recently banned by the Health Ministry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Health Ministry&#8217;s decision was based on the country&#8217;s top drug advisory body, the Drug Technical Advisory Board.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has temporarily revoked the ban imposed on the sale of Saridon and two other drugs after the government had banned 328 combination drugs last week. The apex court order comes in wake of a petition filed by the drug makers. 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