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Drug regulator oversight sought for nutraceuticals; NGO flags quality, pricing concernsA Gujarat NGO is pushing the government to regulate nutraceuticals like medicines. They cite concerns about product quality and unregulated...- Many MSME pharma firms making substandard drugs, CDSCO data showsData from the CDSCO reveals that numerous MSME pharmaceutical companies in India are producing substandard drugs, failing to meet safety st...
- Low conviction rate of cases related to fake drugs a concernThe parliamentary standing committee on chemicals and fertilisers has highlighted a concerning 5.9% conviction rate for spurious or adulter...
- Chemists selling spurious meds may face prosecutionThe government has established a committee to create rules for prosecuting chemists and retailers selling spurious drugs. This initiative a...
- CDSCO finds 50 common medicines substandard, including those for fever, blood pressure, diabetes, and acid refluxMore than 50 drugs for common conditions like high blood pressure, acid reflux, and erectile dysfunction have been found to be not-of-stand...
- Regulator revokes state licensors' power to issue NOC for drug exportsIndia's drug regulator withdraws state licensing authorities' NOC issuance power for export of unapproved drugs due to substandard products...
- 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 ...
- Govt's new proposal: Manufacturer to pay penalty for entire batch if single drug found substandardThere are usually 10,00 to one lakh units in a batch, but the number of drugs - which can be in the form of tablets or liquid - in a batch ...
- Regulator weighs inspection of drug-making facilities in USAccording to the proposal, the sites will be inspected if they have made substandard drugs, received quality complaints, or faced action by...
- 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...
- 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...
- Ranbaxy whistle blower Dinesh Thakur suggests strict prosecution laws to fix drug industryDinesh Thakur says the country needs strict criminal prosecution against suppliers of substandard drugs, a nationwide product recall system.
- India needs strict prosecution laws to fix drug regulatory system: Ranbaxy whistleblower Dinesh ThakurIn his report, Thakur suggested greater empowerment for the central administration by amending certain legal provisions like Drugs and Cosm...
- Madhya Pradesh government procures 'substandard' drugs, alleges Digvijay Singh; writes to Prime Minister Narendra ModiThe former Madhya Pradesh chief minister alleged in the letter that there was a "nexus between the higher officials and supplier companies".
- Focus on spurious, substandard drugs is more importantWe need policy focus to provide standard quality and reasonable prices for the most essential medicines and not aim at ambitious regulatory...
- Exporters of drugs under govt lensThe government has decided to initiate investigation against suspected exporters of substandard drugs on information provided by its missio...
- 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...
- Only a fraction of Indian drugs is substandardThe scare over substandard drugs flooding the market is akin to making a mountain out of a molehill, says a nation-wide study funded by the...
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