Mumbai: The Bombay Excessive Court docket on Wednesday quashed two orders handed by the Maharashtra authorities revoking the license of Johnson & Johnson firm to fabricate, promote and distribute its child powder merchandise, terming them as “stringent, unreasonable and unfair”.
A division bench of Justices Gautam Patel and S G Dige permitted the corporate to fabricate, promote and distribute the merchandise. The bench handed its order on a petition filed by the corporate difficult two orders of the state authorities – one dated September 15, 2022 cancelling the license and the second dated September 20, 2022 ordering it to instantly cease the manufacturing and sale of the newborn powder product.
The bench famous that whereas sustaining requirements of high quality and security are of utmost significance for beauty merchandise, on the identical time it doesn’t appear cheap to close down the entire manufacturing course of when there’s a slight deviation in one of many merchandise. “The manager can’t use a hammer to kill an ant. Is it all the time inevitable that when there’s a single case of deviation or non-compliance (to prescribed norms) by a product the one choice left with the regulatory authority is to cancel or revoke the license of the manufacturing firm?” the courtroom mentioned in its order.
“This appears to us as an excessive method. There appears to be an unfairness and unreasonableness within the government motion. There’s additionally nothing to point out that the FDA (state Meals and Drug Administration) has adopted such a stringent method for some other product of the petitioner firm or some other firm,” it added. Noting that the federal government orders can’t maintain, the HC quashed them and permitted the corporate to fabricate, distribute and promote its child powder merchandise.
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