Last Updated: 18 July 2024

Chemists are being inspected for following all rules, amid concerns about Misuse of pharmaceutical drugs by drug addicts^[1]

Jan-May 2024: Suspended 455 licences of retail chemists and wholesalers i.e an average of 3 per day by Punjab Food and Drug Administration (FDA)^[1:1]

¶ Details^[1:2]

• 8 habit-forming drugs have been notified as restricted under the state drug policy
• Special permission, in addition to a licence, is required to keep and sell such drugs
• ~27,000 chemists are in Punjab, out of which 430 have special permission to store and sell the 8 restricted drugs

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1. https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/punjab-drugs-chemists-wholesalers-suspended-9446280/ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎