{"id":24151,"date":"2023-06-26T18:30:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?post_type=current-affairs&#038;p=24151"},"modified":"2025-03-03T12:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T06:43:33","slug":"drug-controller-general-of-india","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/drug-controller-general-of-india","title":{"rendered":"Drug Controller General of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Context:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Drug Controller General of India cleared, under the provisions of \u2018emergency use authorisation\u2019, a new mRNA vaccine for COVID\u00ad19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About Drug Controller General of India:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DCGI heads the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), which is responsible for ensuring the quality of drug supply across the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Nodal Ministry: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ministry of Health &#038; Family Welfare<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Functions:\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Give approval to new drugs and regulate clinical trials.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sets standards for the manufacturing, sales, import, and distribution of drugs in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Approval of licences of specified categories of drugs such as blood and blood products, IV fluids, vaccines and sera in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Envisages uniform implementation of the provisions of the Drugs &#038; Cosmetics Act, 1940 Act &#038; Rules made there under for ensuring the safety, rights and well being of the patients.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>News Source: <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/editorial\/a-new-regime-on-the-emergency-use-authorisation-regime-in-india-and-clinical-trials\/article67008535.ece#:~:text=India%20must%20keep%20an%20eye%20on%20adverse%20reactions%20from%20new%20drugs%20and%20vaccines&#038;text=Last%20week%2C%20the%20Drug%20Controller,India%20in%20developing%20mRNA%20vaccines.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>The Hindu <\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Drug Controller General of India cleared, under the provisions of \u2018emergency use authorisation\u2019, a new mRNA vaccine for COVID\u00ad19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[2095,2096,1983,1981],"paper-wise":[2084],"subject":[2124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/24151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/current-affairs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/24151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157266,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/24151\/revisions\/157266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24151"},{"taxonomy":"paper-wise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper-wise?post=24151"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=24151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}