CDSCO Certification

CDSCO Certification

The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) is an agency under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. The main functions of CDSCO are manufacture, import, export and sale of medicines in India. It is responsible for bringing out the pharmacopoeia of standards and edition on medicinal products in India.

The main functions of CDSCO are:

• i) Licensing of pharmaceutical manufacturers
• ii) Registration of New Drugs & Products
• iii) Approval of Drugs & Drugs ingredients Used in Medicines
• iv) Issuing Drug Tariff / DPCO
• v) Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme by way training.

It is responsible for implementing the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (D&C Act), and Rules thereunder in all matters related to safety of human life by ensuring the availability at affordable prices of safe, high quality, efficacious, economic and properly labeled medicines in conformity with the provisions of Indian laws governing drugs.

It was set up in 1961 and merged with the Drugs Controller General of India in 1995.