462 drug samples declared spurious during 2019-21

Government data has revealed that 384 persons were arrested after 462 samples of medicines were declared adulterated or spurious during 2019-21. A total of 81,329 drug samples were tested in 2019-20 out of which 2,497 samples were declared as not being of standard quality and 199 were declared of spurious nature.

In 2020-21, out of 84,874 samples lifted for testing, 2,652 samples were declared not of standard quality while 263 were found to be spurious. A total of 220 and 164 people were arrested in 2019-20 and 2020-21, respectively.