Indian Pharma Industry to Move Court against Introduction of Bar Coding

Indian pharma industry is bracing up itself to move court against the introduction of bar coding mandatory for all pharma exports from July 1.

With the union commerce ministry standing firm on its decision to make bar coding mandatory for all pharma exports from July 1 this year to check the export of spurious (fake) drugs from India, the country's pharma industry is bracing up itself to move court against the introduction of bar coding which, the industry said, is alarming as a section of the exporters may lose the entire export business in one stroke of the ministry.

Sources in the industry said that some of the affected parties are preparing to move court. A detailed petition to contest the government's decision in this regard is in the drafting stage and the industry may move high court in two or three days time if the ministry does not make any amendments in its decision which the industry contests is a 'fake solution to a fake problem.'