New Delhi, Nov. 2 -- India's apex drug regulator has cancelled the import registration certificate of a South Korean cosmetic product FatX solution, marketed by Delhi-based Tekno Midas Aesthetics, for making misleading therapeutic claims about dissolving fat cells, according to the two officials and a regulatory document reviewed by Mint.

The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) found that the firm marketed the product on its website as a treatment to "dissolve fat cells and reduce their size". It ruled that such claims fall under the definition of a drug and do not qualify as a cosmetic under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940.

Under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, cosmetics are defined as products applied by rubbing, ...