The state Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cracked the whip on online medical stores found selling drugs to patients on the basis of prescriptions that patients upload. The drug arm of FDA has filed a FIR against two such online medical stores for selling medicines online to patients. The online sale of medicines violates the provisions of the Drugs and Cosmetic Act which governs the manufacturing and sale of drugs in India. Earlier, the FDA had filed an FIR against an e-commerce major for selling drugs online. Following the FIR, most of the see-commerce sites refrained from offering to sell drugs on their online portal. However, FDA officials said that recently online medical stores have mushroomed which makes purchase of medicines just a click away. An FDA inspector posing as a customer bought medicines from Mer a Pharmacy-an online portal.
