Industry reacts positively to ayurvedic drug labelling issue.

January 4, 2006

Date:03/01/2006 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/01/03/stories/2006010302970900.htm Ayurvedic exports to sport label on heavy metals from today P.T. Jyothi Datta Mumbai , Jan 2 For article read: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/01/03/stories/2006010302970900.htm Excerpts: In fact, testing and labelling have been made mandatory by the Indian government on all ayurvedic products being exported from the country, starting

January 1. Among other things, ayurvedic products will now have to sport labels on the presence of heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, and mercury) and information on the therapeutic application of these products. But representatives of the Indian ayurvedic industry are swimming with the tide. It is a progressive step, according to Mr Ranjit Puranik, CEO of the Rs 35-crore Shree Dhootapapeshwar. "It prevents any product that does not have a fundamental level of quality assurance from being exported and casting an aspersion on the entire segment," he added. © Copyright 2000 - 2006 The Hindu Business Line “New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as

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