Gamma Picoline (HS Code 2933 3913)

Gamma Picoline (Quality Control) Order, 2020 (1 page(s), in English)

Gamma Picoline is used in polymer industry for making 4-vinylpridine which is used for manufacture of polymers and pharmaceutical intermediates. It is also used in pharmaceutical industry for the manufacture of Isoniazid, an anti-TB drug. Since Gamma Picoline finds application in the manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals, its quality need to conform to the BIS standards otherwise impurities of Gamma Picoline may enter the animal & human change. The India standard of Gamma Picoline prescribes minimum purity of Gamma Picoline and impurities which need not to exceed the maximum content mentioned there in. The locally manufactured or imported Gamma Picoline shall conform to the Indian standard (IS 16113: 2013) and shall bear the standard mark under license from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Bureau of Indian Standards of the State Governments shall be the enforcing authority.