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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-13032025-261585
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II-Section 3-Sub-section (ii)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 1145]
NEW DELHI, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2025/PHALGUNA 21, 1946
1698 GI/2025
MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
(Department of Health and Family Welfare)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 12th March, 2025
S.O. 1158(E).—Whereas the Central Government is satisfied that the use of drug formulations containing
Chloramphenicol or Nitrofurans drugs are likely to involve risk in any food producing animal rearing system whereas
safer alternatives to the said drugs are available;
And, whereas, the Central Government is satisfied that it is necessary and expedient in the public interest to
prohibit the import, manufacture, sale and distribution of all formulations containing Chloramphenicol or Nitrofurans
drugs for use in any food producing animal rearing system;
Now, therefore, in exercise of powers conferred by section 26A of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, and
after consultation with the Drugs Technical Advisory Board, the Central Government hereby prohibits the import,
manufacture, sale and distribution of the following drugs, for use in any food producing animal rearing system, with
immediate effect, namely -
"(1) Chloramphenicol and its formulations; and
(2) Nitrofurans and its formulations. ".
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NIKHIL GAJRAJ, Jt. Secy.
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