Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, May 16: Licences of 11 retail medical shops and a concern involved with wholesale marketing of drugs were suspended for violating various rules. The suspension orders were issued after the officials found that these shops were violating various rules like sale of expired medicines, dispensing of medicines without the presence of pharmacists in the shop etc.

Officials of drugs control department in the state visited different medical stores across the district and checked their functioning and found some of them to be violating the conditions. During the inspection, licences of 11 shops were suspended for a fixed period for violating provisions of conditions of licence and also Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940.

Pharmacists alone can give medicines in medical shops. In some shops expired medicines were not disposed off scientifically. A release from the office of assistant drugs controller stated that licences of two shops were suspended for throwing expired medicines in residential locality.