The Uttarakhand government will be serving a notice to yoga guru Ramdev’s company, Patanjali Ayurved, for advertising its preparations as a cure for the coronavirus, reported PTI on Wednesday. This comes after Union minister Shripad Naik on Tuesday said that it was good that Ramdev’s company had given the country a new medicine, but added that it still needed a proper permission.
Uttarakhand Ayurved department’s licence officer YS Rawat confirmed that the notice is being sent to Ramdev’s company. “Patanjali Ayurved Limited had the licence only for manufacturing an immunity booster against cough and fever,” he said. “There was nothing in their application related to the treatment of coronavirus.”
He added that the company’s application was received on June 10, and was approved by a panel two days later. “...but the firm had the permission to manufacture only two or three drugs as immunity boosters against cough and fever, and not a drug for [the] coronavirus,” Rawat said.
The notice to Ramdev’s company will be sent under Rules 170 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, that makes it compulsory for companies to ask for permission from the licensing authority before advertising a product in print or electronic media.
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