The drug and cosmetic act

Substance specified in schedule E to the drugs and cosmetic act1940 are poison. A person holding a licence to sell , stock and exhibit for sale and distribute these poison is required to observe the following conditions:-

1) Any poison or any preparation containing a poison and any drug supplied on the prescription of a registered medical practitioner must, compounded or made uo on the licencees premise , be compounded or made up by or under the supervision of qualified person.

2) The supply of any drug on a prescription must be recorded at the time of supply in a prescription ,register maintained for the purpose and the serial number of any entry in the register must be entered.

3) A person sold retail must be labeled with the word poison in such a language as the central Government may prescribed, by notification in the official Gazette.

4) The container of a medicine made up ready for the treatment of human ailment must be labeled with the word poison, if it contains a poison. Small quantity:- small quantity is defined as meaning such quantity as may be specified by the central government ; these quantity are: 5 gm for opium and hashish. 250 gm for heroin, smack and brown sugar. 25 gm for opium. 500 gm for ganja.