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THE ambition of those enlightened practitioners X of medicine in India who, under the leadership of Dr. Chopra, have sought for many years past to bring that country into line with the rest of the civilized world in the matter of standardized drugs now seems to be near achievement. A comprehensive measure providing for the uniform control of the manufacture and sale of drugs as well as the importation of drugs is now before the Legislative Assembly; the introduction of such a Bill is, in itself, no small advance towards the desired goal, since the Bill is backed by resolutions from every one of the provincial legislatures empowering the central authority to pass an Act to regulate the manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs throughout India. No such resolutions were necessary for the purpose of a measure to regulate the importation of drugs, but such limited control would fail to bring about the desired purpose, namely, to create a clean business in medical supplies in every province. It would be of little use to prohibit the importation of inferior drugs if there were no means of preventing the sophistication of imports or the domestic production of inferior preparations. The Bill, when it becomes law, will extend to the whole of India.
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Drug Standards for India. Nature 145, 716 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145716a0
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