Apex court issues notice to Centre on ‘illegal drug trials'

New Delhi: 7th February 2012

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre on a writ petition alleging that illegal clinical trials of untested drugs were being conducted by pharmaceutical companies on adults, children and even mentally ill persons in various States. The Indore-based Swasthya Adhikar Manch was the petitioner. NGO's counsel Sanjay Parikh told the Bench of Justices R.M. Lodha and H.L. Gokhale that in a large number of cases, multinational corporations were using contract research organisations for carrying out clinical trials of unapproved drugs.

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