[e-drug] Reusing bottles in the drug manufacturing

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E-drug: Reusing bottles in drug manufacturing
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[Copied from SIGN. With proper cleaning this is of course not bad, but when 
cleaning is unsatisfactory or not done, there is a different story.... KM]

RECYCLED BOTTLES FIND THEIR WAY BACK INTO THE DRUG INDUSTRY
(because they are not subject to tax and cost about one-sixth of a new 
bottle)

December 24, 2001 12:00am
Source: Financial Times Limited - All Rights Reserved India Business 
Insight
via NewsEdge Corporation : 12/06/2001

Makers of fake and poor quality drugs are once again using second-hand 
glass bottles. They account for 3-5 percent of the 2,400 million bottles 
the pharmaceutical industry uses a year. Used bottles are cheaper: a 
6-millilitre bottle used for packing syrup or similar liquids cost about 
Rs1-40 each but a used packaging container costs one-sixth of this price. 
 Another lure for using second-hand bottles is that there is no excise duty 
on them, while new bottles attract 16 percent levy. There is no legal ban 
on using second-hand bottles in packing liquids and syrups. Most of the 
drug manufacturers do not use recycled bottles for packaging their products 
because they do not have the facility to clean them properly.

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Financial Times Information Limited - Asia Africa Intelligence Wire
<<India Business Insight -- 12/06/01>>

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