FDA had taken a special drive to crackdown the online sale of the drug-like Medical termination of Pregnancy (MTP) kit.
In this drive, FDA has checked various 34 online sites for the availability of MTP kit drugs for sale.
During the verification process, online order for the MTP kit was placed by FDA officials by posing as a customer on the ‘Amazon’ site twice. Both orders were accepted by ‘Amazon. in’ site without asking doctor’s prescription, though doctor prescription is mandatory for the sale of MTP kit. After that MTP kit drugs were delivered by Gurunanak Enterprises, Lucknow (UP) & Choudhary Pharmaceuticals /Piramal Ltd. Korapur (Orissa) against the order. Online sale of MTP kit without doctor’s prescription leads to violation of provisions of Drug & Cosmetics Act, 1940, hence FDA has issued notice to Amazon & respective drugs suppliers & further action by FDA is in progress. 
In one more case, an order was placed on the ‘Flipkart’ website for the MTP kit. Order was accepted at two different incidences without a doctor’s prescription & even SMS was received from ‘Flipkart’ regarding the dispatch of a drug on both incidences. An offer to sell an MTP kit drug, without a doctor’s prescription, is a violation of provisions of the act, hence FDA has issued notice to ‘Flipkart’ & further action is in progress.
In the recent incidence of online sale of MTP kit by ‘Amazon” to one chemist at Pune was revealed, who lodged a complaint with FDA Pune. FDA swung into action & investigated the matter with supplier R.K. Medicines, Ahmedabad Gujarat. It was found that the supplier didn’t have the purchase bill of said MTP kit. Therefore, FIR was lodged against the Supplier at Police station Pune. Police are investigating the matter further.
