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Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1940

.....of property, apparatus, etc., used for the manufacture of such drugs."-S.O.R., Gazette of India, 11-5-1963, Pt. II, S. 2, Ext., page 465. Act 68 of 1982 The Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, regulates the import into, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs and cosmetics in the country. The problems of adulteration of drugs and also of production of spurious and sub-standard drugs are posing serious threat to the health of the community. It is, therefore, considered necessary to amend the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, so as to impose more stringent penalties on the anti-social elements indulging in the manufacture or sale of adulterated or spurious drugs or drugs not of standard quality which are likely to cause death or grievous hurt to the user. This opportunity is also being availed of to incorporate certain other provisions on the other aspects of effective control on the manufacture, distribution, sale of drugs and cosmetics on the basis of experience gained in the working of the Act. 2. Some of the important proposals envisaged are set out below:- (1) (a) Widening of the definition of the expression 'cosmetics' so as to bring within its scope 'tiolet soaps' in order.....

Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (23 of 1940) Section 23

Title: Procedure of Inspectors

State: Central

Year: 1940

.....all or any of the portions so sealed and marked: Provided that where the sample is taken from premises whereon the drug1[or cosmetic] is being manufactured, it shall be necessary to divide the sample into three portions only: Provided further that where the drug1[or cosmetic] is made up in containers of small volume, instead of dividing a sample as aforesaid, the Inspector may, and if the drug1[or cosmetic] be such that it is likely to deteriorate or be otherwise damaged by exposure shall, take three or four, as the case may be, of the said containers after suitably marking the same and, where necessary, sealing them. (4) The Inspector shall restore one portion of a sample so divided or one container, as the case may be, to the person from whom he takes it, and shall retain the remainder and dispose of the same as follows:-- (i) one portion or container he shall forthwith send to the Government Analyst for test or analysis; (ii) the second he shall produce to the Court before which proceedings, if any, are instituted in respect of the drug1[or cosmetic]; and 2[(iii) the third, where taken, he shall send to the person, if any, whose name, address and other particulars.....