Times of India has published a news that Indian Medical Association (IMA) has decided that it will not endorse any product as that would be against the Medical Council of India (MCI) regulations. Click on the image to read the news.Reading this news, I was reminded of advertisements of Dettol and Lizol which claim that their products are recommended by IMA. They also print logo of IMA on the product. Dettol website also makes this claim. CLICK to see.
It is not only that these IMA is violating MCI regulations by endorsing these products, it does not have any system/procedures under which it can do Third-Party Certification (TPC). In last two years, I have tried to find out if IMA has any system/procedure for TPC but it did provide me any information.
On August 13, 2007, I have written a post on this blog:
Dettol ad - it needs verification
Dettol is advertising on TV that their product is certified by Indian Medical Association (IMA) . But if you visit IMA website, you will not find any details of any third-party product certification scheme. As per information available with me, there is only BIS who operates third-party product certification scheme, under which they allow manufacturers to put ISI mark on their products. BIS officers regularly visit factories of their licensees, check records (kept as per BIS Scheme of Testing & Inspection), test samples in the factory and draw samples for testing in an independent laboratory. in addition to this, BIS officers also purchase samples from the market and get them tested in an independent laboratory.
I don't think that IMA has such infrastructure and expertise to run a third-party product certification scheme. This ad inserted by Dettol certainly need verification.
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I don't think that IMA has such infrastructure and expertise to run a third-party product certification scheme. This ad inserted by Dettol certainly need verification.
CLICK to read the post.
