IPA moots accreditation body for chemists
The need for an accreditation body for chemists, similar to the National Accreditation Board for Laboratories (NABL), to ensure a religious implementation of good pharmacy and storage practices is gaining currency among experts in the profession.

Health policy has neglected pharmacists: Dr M D Nair
“Pharmacy professionals are working in research and development departments of pharmaceutical companies, hospital and retail pharmacies, manufacturing units, colleges etc.

IPA demands Patent Appellate Tribunal adjudication on EMR disputes
The powerful association of innovation-oriented drug companies—the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA)—has urged the Union Government to extend the jurisdiction of the proposed Patent Appellate Tribunal (PAT) to make the statutory body a “simple, effective and inexpensive” mechanism to arbitrate on exclusive marketing right (EMR) disputes too.

Experts call for urgent adoption of WHO GSP guidelines
THE country has to make WHO’s Good Storage Practices (GSP) guidelines for pharmaceutical products mandatory without delay as the existing norms are vague and susceptible to wide interpretation far removed from the pharmacist and the consumer, according to FMCG icon Hindustan Lever Ltd’s research head Dr D B Anantha Narayana.