INDIA received
the international recognition to be a full adherent to Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD) Council Act related to Mutual Acceptance
of Data (MAD) in the Assessment of Chemicals. Thus India joins the part of
chemicals programme related to MAD, with all of the rights and obligations
of OECD member countries. The full adherent
status for India came after several cycles of rigorous evaluation processes
by OECD followed by multiple discussion and coordination by OECD Council with
the OECD member countries.
The major implication of India's full adherence to the MAD system is that
non-clinical health and environment safety data generated in India under the
conditions of 1981 and 1989 Council Act will be accepted by 33 OECD member
countries (all EU countries, USA and Japan) and other adhering countries for
purposes of assessment and other uses related to protection of man and environment.
Several
Ministries and Departments of the Government of India have been keenly awaiting
this development. These are Department of Agriculture & Co-operation,
Department of Commerce, Department of Chemical and Fertilizers Department of
Chemical and Petrochemicals and the Department of Pharmaceuticals. This major
achievement for the country opens up newer avenues of employment generation
in contract research for evaluation of chemicals; it removes a potential trade
barrier since the REACH Regulation of EU now stipulates that all chemicals
exported beyond one tonne would need to be tested in GLP environment.
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