India's Health Min to Hold Coordination Meeting on Barcoding

India's union health ministry will soon call a coordination meeting with the commerce ministry and the department of MSME to discuss the issue of cost implications of the bar code implementation.

The union health ministry of India will have a joint meeting with the union ministries of commerce and MSME to discuss the issue of cost implications of the bar code implementation by the small and medium pharma companies both for exports and for government supplies, and also to harmonize the guidelines issued by DGFT on bar coding.