Tag: FDA
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Massive decline in number of drug abusers in Punjab: Minister
The drugs would be destroyed in a phased manner beginning today and would further intensify our crackdown to take our mission to make Punjab Drug Free to its logical end, state health minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said.
December 16, 2019 -
Online food suppliers told to get hygiene rating by 31 October
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner KS Pannu on Tuesday said if FBOs failed to ensure the hygiene rating of their establishments by 31 October, appropriate action under the law would be initiated.
September 10, 2019 -
FDA restricts sale of habit forming drugs Tramadol and Tapentadol
“Ensuring that the legitimate requirements of these drugs will not suffer and simultaneously their easy availability for alleged misuse be reduced, Tramadol and Tapentadol in oral solid dosage forms would be available with identified number of licencees, who are situated either inside or outside the hospitals run by government and private management,” he said.
August 1, 2019 -
Dietary supplements could harm your health
The study, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, found that these types of supplements were linked to nearly three times as many severe medical outcomes in young people
June 8, 2019 -
Do you eat food to be healthy or to get sick?
There are some things which any amount of washing, boiling or roasting cannot clean out - and those are drugs. There is a cocktail of them in your meat and all of them are going to go into your body
March 17, 2019 -
Punjab FDA warns against mustard oil adulteration
Taking a serious view of sale of adulterated mustard oil in Punjab, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), commissioner KS Pannu on Monday warned strong legal action against those indulging in adulteration. He said that cheap palm oil and crude rice bran oil, as well as crude soybean oil, are being mixed with mustard oil by …
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September 11, 2018 -
Chemists warned against selling prohibited drugs
The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) Punjab has warned chemists against selling prohibited and intoxicating drugs. The FDA commissioner KS Pannu has urged people to come forward and inform the department if any chemist is found selling prohibited and intoxicating drugs. Coupled with the ongoing inspections of the wholesale and retail chemist shops, the drugs …
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September 1, 2018 -
In search of a cure
Conspiracy, paranoia and scandal surround the death of Aaron Traywick, a biohacker, who had injected himself live on stage at an event in Austin, Texas with an untested gene therapy that he claimed could cure herpes.
June 3, 2018