CDSCO Drug Disposal Rules 2025: If you are also expired or used in your house, it will not be right to throw them in the dustbin. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), India’s largest drug regulatory body, has issued a new guideline regarding the disposal of such drugs.
CDSCO Drug Disposal Rules 2025
CDSCO has released a list of 17 special medicines which if expired or not needed, then it is better to flush directly into the toilet or sink.
These include:
These are all painkillers or mental pressure -reducing medicines. Regarding these, the CDSCO says that if it gets the hands of a wrong person, like children or pets, then it can be fatal.
The rest of the normal medicines have to be neither flushed nor thrown into the garbage. For these, the government has suggested a new scheme, called “Drug Tech Back”. Under this, the drug control department and medical stores of the state will jointly form centers where people can submit the remaining or expired medicines of their house.
These drugs will later be destroyed according to the biomedical waste management rules fixed by the government.
The need for this guideline was because many research has revealed that the wrongly throwing of medicines is dangerous for the environment.
According to a study, parts of drugs were found in the water of Yamuna River and Delhi-NCR. They had antibiotic medicines, which were mixed in water due to throwing in the dustbin. This developed bacteria in water sources, which do not affect medicines – it indicates antibiotic resistance.
Max Healthcare’s pharmacy chief Devrati Majumdar has appreciated this initiative of CDSCO. He said that the hospital will also now give a form while discharging the patients, which will be told how to settle the remaining medicines properly.
He also added that flush drugs are those who have the highest probability of misuse, such as drug addiction drugs. Therefore, it is safe to end them immediately.
