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Pranjal Diler

Associate in Pharma and Life Sciences Practice at the Delhi-NCR office of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. Pranjal can be reached at pranjal.diler@cyrilshroff.com.

When The Cover Gets Judged: Unboxing Cosmetics Packaging Obligations

Summary: Cosmetics packaging sits across overlapping regimes, spanning labelling accuracy, plastic waste management, and product-specific rules of their own. A single product may touch all three frameworks at once, raising issues from registration requirements to mislabelling liability to repercussions for missed EPR targets. The real challenge, however, lies in reliably seeing where they all converge on the same pack.

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Patchwork of Legal Classification: How Transdermal Patches reveal the fault lines in India’s Drug–Cosmetic Divide

Summary: This article explores the regulatory challenges surrounding acne and transdermal patches in India. An acne patch that promises to “reduce a blemish overnight” and a nicotine patch that delivers a measured dose through the skin look worlds apart. Yet under Indian law, both sit on the same unresolved line. Their classification determines whether a company needs only a cosmetic registration or a full drug license backed by clinical data, with any misclassification carrying serious risks.

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