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GOI bans the import of Chenodeoxycholic acid and Ursodeoxycholic acid

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on March 16, the year 2020 has banned the import of two important drugs in India beneath the power given by the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. These two drugs are Chenodeoxycholic acid and Ursodeoxycholic acid. They are no more eligible for pharmaceutical product registration in India . The reason behind the ban is that both drugs Chenodeoxycholic acid and Ursodeoxycholic acid which is extracted and then prepared from porcine sources are more likely to possess a certain risk to the health of living beings that includes both human beings and animals. Thus it was necessary for Government to expedient to prevent the drug import as per public interest. These two banned drugs are extracted from the biles of domestic pigs as well as the Asian black bears. China also possesses farms for bile extraction but these farms have got severe criticism from international global animal rights organizations because of the inhumane and unhygienic extraction p
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