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Centre plans new law for stricter quality checks and surveillance of drugs, medical devices, and cosmeticsIndia is creating a new law to improve drug quality and safety. This legislation will give more power to regulators for checking medicines,...- Centre to bring law for strict quality checks, surveillance of drugs and cosmeticsIndia is creating a new law to improve drug quality and safety. This legislation will give more power to regulators for testing and monitor...
- Another Indian pharma manufacturer in news after WHO's substandard medicine alertThe alert was issued for a batch of substandard (contaminated) Guaifenesin Syrup TG Syrup. The substandard product was identified in the Ma...
- Remdesivir batch withdrawn due to inferior quality: Maharashtra governmentSeeking to allay concerns over shortage of Remdesivir, the minister said the government held talks with pharma companies and ensured suffic...
- Drug marketers to be held responsible for qualityPharmaceutical companies that market medicines made by third parties in the country will now be held responsible for drug product quality w...
- Substandard drugs are a bigger problem for India than fakesThe surveys and reports point to the need for handling of the problem of substandard and counterfeit drugs .
- Substandard drugs are a bigger problem for India than fakesA review of the annual reports of the country’s top 10 pharma companies shows that words like “counterfeit”, “spurious" or “fake” drugs do ...
- Pharma cos marketing medicines made by third parties to soon be liable for quality lapses flagged by CDSCOThe move is expected to check lapses in quality of medicines consumed by patients in the country, according to persons aware of the develop...
- One in 10 medicines in developing countries is substandard or falsified: WHOWHO has received reports of substandard or falsified medical products ranging from cancer treatment to contraception.
- Popular antacid samples fail quality tests, company claims they were counterfeitsThe Pantocid and Pantocid DSR tested by CDSCO were not manufactured by Sun Pharma, the official spokesperson for the Mumbai-based drug make...
- Low-cost, paper-based device can spot substandard medicinesMedications can be compromised in many different ways. For example, they may be bulked up with fillers, or they can degrade because they ar...
- Made in India drugs safe & effective: SurveyThis result also implies that substandard drugs sold in India has dipped from 2011-2015, when roughly 4-5% of the total samples were declar...
- Counterfeit drugs pose global threat: studyScientists report in a collection of journal articles that up to 41 % of specimens failed to meet quality standards in global studies.
- BJP attacks Nitish Kumar over purchase of 'sub standard' medicinesSushil Kumar Modi told reporters that 'substandard' medicines were purchased from six 'blacklisted' companies in January this year and supp...
- Fake & sub-standard drugs: India, China may be worst offendersDespite efforts globally, sales of fake medicines are rising rapidly, and the menace could be worse than the health threat posed by Big Tob...
- India, Brazil & China defend generic drugs at WTOIndia, Brazil and China, however, argued that infringing intellectual property rights should not be confused with sub-standard products.
- Exporters of drugs under govt lensThe government has decided to initiate investigation against suspected exporters of substandard drugs on information provided by its missio...
- Quality stamp for drugs in worksThe ministry of health seeks to introduce a quality mark for the Rs 35,000-crore generic drugs market to enable consumers distinguish betwe...
- Quality marks for generic drugs may be must soonThe government and the industry are in talks to introduce quality marks for these medicines to ensure consumers don’t buy sub-standard drug...
- DCGI plans survey to detect fake medicinesThe Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) is planning a survey to detect the quantum of spurious and substandard drugs being sold to unsu...
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