[e-drug] Indian Drug Regulation: Light at the End of the Tunnel in 2012?

["Mira Shiva" <mirashiva@yahoo.com>]

E-DRUG: Indian Drug Regulation: Light at the End of the Tunnel in 2012?  (2)
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Dear Wilbert ,
  Thanks .
  Two more things have happened 
  1 Mashelkar Committee on  Patentability 
  2 Announcement by OPPI ie Organization of Pharmaceutical s Producers of India  of a voluntary code  curtailing free jaunts, shopping & entertainment of doctors . This is apparently in keeping with the IFPMA Code . 

The timing of the announcement is strategic  Firstly The Indian Drug Policy is  supposed to be announced . There has been criticism about the increasing drug prices, with consumers having to pay for for all these gifts &  promotional Activities .
  
Secondly it is the RATIONAL DRUG USE RESOLUTION that is on the agenda of the WHO G. B . in Geneva 
   
A question that needs answering is  what has been the level of  effectiveness of implementation of the IFPMA CODE  & the Action taken against violators . Do you have information on this ? maybe Barbara Mintez  has some ? 
 
As Chairperson of the task force on Consumer Education on Safety of Food & Medicine I would like to follow this up & also  in Rational Use of Drugs  Resolution Effort 

  regards 
  Mira Shiva
India 
Mira Shiva <mirashiva@yahoo.com>