Food & Drug Administration, (M.S.), Mumbai.
FDA issued notice to Amazon & Flipkart for online sale of Pregnancy Termination (MTP) kit
FDA had taken special drive to crackdown the online sale of the drug like Medical termination of Pregnancy (MTP) kit. In this drive FDA has checked various 34 online sites for the availability of MTP kit drugs for sale.
During verification process, online order for MTP kit was placed by FDA officials by posing as a customer on ‘Amazon’ site twice. Both orders were accepted by ‘Amazon.in’ site without asking doctor’s prescription, though doctor prescription is mandatory for the sale of MTP kit. After that MTP kit drugs were delivered by Gurunanak Enterprises, Lucknow (UP) & Choudhary Pharmaceuticals /Piramal Ltd. Korapur (Orissa) against the order. Online sale of MTP kit without doctor’s prescription leads to violation of provisions of Drug & Cosmetics Act, 1940, hence FDA has issued notice to Amazon & respective drugs suppliers & further action by FDA is in progress.
In one more case, order was placed on ‘Flipkart’ website for MTP kit. Order was accepted at two different incidences without doctor’s prescription & even SMS was received from ‘Flipkart’ regarding dispatch of drug on both incidences. An offer to sale of MTP kit drug, without doctor’s prescription, is a violation of provisions of the act, hence FDA has issued notice to ‘Flipkart’ & further action is in progress.
In recent incidence of online sale of MTP kit by ‘Amazon” to one chemist at Pune was revealed, who lodged complaint with FDA Pune. FDA swung into action & investigated the matter with supplier R.K. Medicines, Ahmedabad Gujarat. It was found that supplier didn’t have the purchase bill of said MTP kit. Therefore, FIR was lodged against Supplier at Police station Pune. Police are investigating matter further.
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