Oct 10, 2024
New Delhi: The government has made QR codes mandatory on all vaccines, in a bid to prevent counterfeits and validate the authenticity, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) on Wednesday told ET.
“Recently we have notified that all vaccines would have the QR code. It makes it very easy for the consumer and other stakeholders to identify the genuine products,” Raghuvanshi said.
The DCGI said that an aggressive campaign has been initiated in that direction and non compliance will not be accepted.
“The other thing which is also helping us a lot is that the current Act has all the provisions to do the prosecutions. Once we find or identify such non compliance action is taken. In the last 2 years wherever we have found this we have actually taken it to a logical conclusion depending on the non compliance that has helped us send a very strong message in the indust1Y that this is not acceptable,” the DGCIsaid.
“Things have improved a lot since we started this aggressive campaign against non-compliance. As a regulator we are taking all the measures which are showing us results. There is a lot of movement that we see in terms of awareness and in terms of maintaining the standards,” he added.
Raghuvanshi said that in the next phase more products will be added.
Source: Economic Times