Hand sanitizers need registration with medicines regulatory authority

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has banned the import, manufacture, storing, distribution, wholesale and retail of hand sanitizers that are not registered with the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA).

An extraordinary gazette notification has been issued to this effect.

Consumer Affairs Authority Chairman Major General (Retired) Shantha Dissanayake published the gazette notification on Friday.

The direction is expected to come into effect from Feb. 1.

The gazette notification further noted that hand sanitizers without the registration number displayed on a conspicuous place of the pack or container will also be banned from import, manufacture, storing, distribution, wholesale and retail.