FTP - Mono cartons to be treated as primary level packaging of export consignment of pharmaceuticals and drugs
DGFT had by Public Notice No.21 dated 10.01.2011 prescribed Procedure relating to tracing and tracking of export consignment of pharmaceuticals and drugs.
Para 3 a. of the Public Notice read as:
3. Exporter of Pharmaceutical products will build track and trace capability for their exported medicines using barcode technology as per GS 1 global standards. The same will need to be done at primary, secondary and tertiary level packaging labels as per details below:-
a. Primary Level packaging:
Incorporation of 2D (GS 1 Data matrix) barcodes on medicines at strip/vial/bottle level encoding unique product identification code (GTIN), Batch Number, Expiry Date and Serial Number of the Primary pack.
Now this sentence is added at the end - "Mono cartons containing stripes/vials/bottle shall be treated as part of primary level packaging".
DGFT Public Notice No. 31 (RE-2013)/2009-2014,Dated: October 17, 2013