Query: I am interested to start a small pharmaceutical packaging company and I am looking for some information. I have found your email on google when I was reading your article on how to start a pharmaceutical packaging company. Can you provide me some guidance that how can I start a pharmaceutical packaging company and how much investment require for small scale. Response: You can start a pharmaceutical packaging printing company by setting up machinery and equipment. Unlike pharmaceutical manufacturing plants, there is no requirement of taking drug related licenses for pharmaceutical packaging companies. You can set-up a packaging company just like any other un-regulated sector. Search for premises Take GST number Purchase machinery and equipment's Tie-up with pharmaceutical finished goods manufacturing unit Supply to them But for starting a packaging company, you need to have knowledge of some skills like basic knowledge of designing, printing process and requirements of pharm
According to Drug and Cosmetic Act & Rules , Drug Includes: (i) All medicines for internal or external use of human beings or animals and all substances intended to be used for or in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of any disease or disorder in human beings or animals, including preparations applied on human body for the purpose of repelling insects like mosquitoes; (ii) Such substances (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the human body or intended to be used for the destruction of vermin or insects which cause disease in human beings or animals, as may be specified from time to time by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette; (iii) All substances intended for use as components of a drug including empty gelatin capsules; and (iv) Such devices intended for internal or external use in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of disease or