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Ayush Mark – Global Quality Benchmark for Traditional Medicine

#Traditional Medicine#Quality Standards#Health Policy
Last updated: 18 December 2025

Core Update

The Ayush Mark has been unveiled as a global benchmark for quality of AYUSH products and services.

What is the Ayush Mark?

Ayush Mark is a quality certification framework intended to standardise and globally benchmark AYUSH products and services.

Purpose

  • Promote credibility of AYUSH systems
  • Enable international acceptance of traditional medicine products
  • Support regulation and quality assurance

Global Context

  • Launched alongside WHO-led initiatives on Traditional Medicine
  • Supports evidence-based and regulated use of AYUSH

UPSC Relevance

  • GS-II: Health policy, international cooperation
  • GS-III: Indigenous systems, standardisation

Prelims Trap Alert

⚠️ Ayush Mark is not a GI tag. It is a quality benchmark, not a trademark.

CivisPrime Tip

💡 Revise the objective and certification nature, not event details.
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Quick Recall

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What is Ayush Mark?
Quality certification framework for AYUSH products & services – NOT a GI tag
Ayush Mark launched alongside which international initiative?
WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine 2025
Ayush Mark purpose?
Standardise, globally benchmark, and enable international acceptance of AYUSH products
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