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Section 9B: Spurious drugs

The Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945Central Rules · 1940

For the purposes of this Chapter, a drug shall be deemed to be spurious—

(a) if it is imported under a name which belongs to another drug; or

(b) if it is an imitation of, or a substitute for, another drug or resembles another drug in a manner likely to deceive or bears upon it or upon its label or container the name of another drug unless it is plainly and conspicuously marked so as to reveal its true character and its lack of identity with such other drug; or

(c) if the label or the container bears the name of an individual or company purporting to be the manufacturer of the drug, which individual or company is fictitious or does not exist; or

(d) if it has been substituted wholly or in part by another drug or substance; or

(e) if it purports to be the product of a manufacturer of whom it is not truly a product.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945
Section9B
Marginal noteSpurious drugs
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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