By Team Ayurved Sutra
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70 Ayurveda licences in 3 months, no checks
In a display of unusual haste, the Ayurveda Department handed out on average one licence every day to hand sanitiser manufacturers without following the protocols. As per the record of Directorate of Ayurveda, Punjab, 70 new brands had been given licence to sell in the market since March, without checking the raw material or formulations. There have been instances where a manufacturer got the licence in a day and the product was out in the market the next day.
The state Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently tested two Ayurvedic sanitisers and both failed the quality test. One of these, manufactured in Jalandhar, contained over 95 per cent methanol. Several others didn’t mention the plant’s location, mandatory under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. The FDA is learnt to have conveyed to the Directorate of Ayurveda about the excess use of methanol in sanitisers.
