DRUGS, MAGIC REMEDIES BILL FINALISED
Misleading Health Product Ads may Fetch 5-yr Jail Term
Advertisements promoting fairness creams, health drinks claiming improvement in height of children and products promoting anti-ageing remedies could soon be banned and attract a jail term extending up to five years.
The ministry of health and family welfare has finalised Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) (Amendment) Bill 2020 which increase the number of diseases and disorders covered under the Act. The legislation bans advertisements of products and magic remedies which claim to cure diseases and disorders like AIDS, diabetes, deafness, low vision. This list has been increased from 54 to 78.
The draft amendment bans advertisements of products that promote fairness creams, enhance sexual performance, cure premature ageing and greying of hair, improvement in height of children or adults, increase in brain capacity and memory, improvement in strength of teeth and vision, change of foetal gender by drugs.
Let us hope the proposed Bill is passed by both houses to make it a law. more
Advertisements promoting fairness creams, health drinks claiming improvement in height of children and products promoting anti-ageing remedies could soon be banned and attract a jail term extending up to five years.
The ministry of health and family welfare has finalised Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) (Amendment) Bill 2020 which increase the number of diseases and disorders covered under the Act. The legislation bans advertisements of products and magic remedies which claim to cure diseases and disorders like AIDS, diabetes, deafness, low vision. This list has been increased from 54 to 78.
The draft amendment bans advertisements of products that promote fairness creams, enhance sexual performance, cure premature ageing and greying of hair, improvement in height of children or adults, increase in brain capacity and memory, improvement in strength of teeth and vision, change of foetal gender by drugs.
Let us hope the proposed Bill is passed by both houses to make it a law. more
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Advertisers, print or electronic media should be punished with heavy monetary punishment and a public declaration that they will never do so. more
Jul 27
The ICD has over 5000 diseases including psychiatric cases. The law should not mention 78 diseases, it should apply to any ad that applies to any disease which does not have research proof. The old laws do not allow for advertisement of drugs or marketing of drugs directly to patients. Hence, you do not see any allopathic drug advertisements. But, AYUSH medicine advertisements do not call the disease by name. For example, they do ads for medicines for joint pains but do not know which disease because there are several joint pain disease in modern medicine. Similarly, there are several TV ads claiming for sugar control claiming research done by Central government institutes. But, no research is quoted. In that case, that is also a misleading advertisement. Will the government take action against central labs & research institutes under the new law then? more
Feb 08
I had posted a message on manipulation by hospitals. How to locate On Fri, Feb 7, 2020, 9:22 PM MOHIT PANDE wrote: > more
Feb 08
