Cough syrup case: Lavish Lucknow mansion of arrested ex-constable draws focus amid ED raidsA lavish Lucknow home belonging to a dismissed police constable, Alok Pratap Singh, has been raided by the Enforcement Directorate. Singh i...
Illegal cough syrup trade: UP Police book 12 medical store ownersAn FIR has been filed against twelve medical store owners and two individuals in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. They are accused of running a larg...
Varanasi police seizes 93,000 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup worth Rs 2 croreDCP (Varuna Zone) Pramod Kumar said that acting on a tip-off, a police team conducted a raid at a warehouse in the Bhadwar locality and sei...
Over 18,000 bottles of codeine syrup seized; 2 men held from Madhya Pradesh, GujaratIn a significant crackdown, the police in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar have confiscated more than 18,000 bottles of codeine syrup, known for i...
Canada faces pain medicine shortage and here’s what can you doCanada is grappling with a nationwide shortage of prescription pain medications containing acetaminophen with codeine or oxycodone, impacti...
Maharashtra: NCB busts interstate drug racket, seizes 3,600 Nitrazepam tablets, codeine syrup bottles in Thane, two heldThe Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted an interstate drug syndicate, arresting two individuals at Kalyan Railway Station in Thane. T...
Strides Pharma gets USFDA nod to market generic headache drugThe product, which will be marketed by Singapore-based Strides Pharma Inc in the US market, is a generic version of Teva's Fioricet with Co...
Opium trade sluggish as norms, infra beg for upgradeIndia is having to import opium byproduct codeine phosphate and is in danger of losing its leadership in the international legal narcotics ...
FDA seizes around 15,000 bottles of Codeine syrupOn orders of FDA Commissioner Harshadeep Kamble, the FDA team kept a watch and carried out a test purchase through a fake customer.
Ban proposed on drugs having serious side effects"There are variations in each individual in conversions of codeine to morphine and each individual reacts differently," Prof K C Singhal.
FDA cracks down on wholesalers for illegal diversion of ‘Codeine’The seizure affects only the syrup that contains codeine phosphate, a narcotic substance commonly used in preparation of cough syrup.
- Piramal Healthcare rethinks plan to set up new drug unit
Piramal Healthcare is reviewing its plans to set up a new unit to make codeine, the basic chemical used to produce best-selling cough syrup...
- Dr Reddy's, Piramal Healthcare get rights to make codeine
Dr Reddy's and Piramal Healthcare have obtained approval from the government to manufacture codeine, a narcotic that is key raw material fo...
- Nicholas Piramal undecided on strategic partner in R&D company
Pharma company Nicholas Piramal to decide on partner for its new entity to be demerged from itd R&D segment.
- Nicholas Piramal mulls entering codeine production
Drug maker Nicholas Piramal plans to enter into production of narcotic codeine, used in various drugs, after its first quarter results were...
- Pfizer, Nicholas Piramal hit by codeine shortage
Hit by the shortage of raw material codeine, India’s highest selling drug (in value) Pfizer’s cough syrup Corex has slipped to the eighth s...
- Pvt entry into opium may drive exports & cut costs
A clutch of pharmaceutical majors, including Ranbaxy, Dr Reddy’s, Cipla and Nicholas Piramal, has formed a queue before the finance ministr...