Dear Reader, we are happy to share the most interesting legal and policy updates concerning health industry that we read today. We hope you enjoy reading it.
1. India’s Environment Ministry is planning to exempt white category industries i.e., low environment risk industries from the requirement to obtain consent before establishing and operating an Industry provided the industry makes a self-declaration to the concerned pollution control board.
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2. India’s environment ministry is planning to exempt industries who have already obtained Environmental Clearance (EC) from obtaining environmental consent to establish the industry.
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3. After Odisha and West Bengal, other states in India are reportedly considering to allow online sale and home delivery of alcoholic beverages.
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4. Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) has waived off the Target Animal Batch Safety Test (TABST), which involved administering vaccine overdoses to animals to test each batch of vaccine for safety of a specific species starting from 1st July 2024.
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5. EU antitrust regulators have officially accepted a pharmaceutical giant’s pledge not to disparage its competitor’s iron deficiency treatment medicine.
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