Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940
26A.
Powers of Central Government to prohibit manufacture, etc., of drug and
cosmetic in public interest
Without prejudice to any other provision contained in this
Chapter, if the Central Government is satisfied, that the use of any drug or cosmetic
is likely to involve any risk to human beings or animals or that any drug does
not have the therapeutic value claimed or purported to be claimed for it or
contains ingredients and in such quantity for which there is no therapeutic
justification and that in the public interest it is necessary or expedient so
to do, then, that Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
prohibit the manufacture, sale or distribution of such drug or cosmetic.]