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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...
- Kerala bans Sresan Pharmaceuticals' medicines after Tamil Nadu cancels company licenceKerala has banned medicines from Tamil Nadu's Sresan Pharmaceuticals following the cancellation of its license. The state also halted sales...
- 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...
- Cough syrups by India's Maiden Pharma linked to 66 deaths in Gambia, WHO issues alertThe WHO also issued a medical product alert asking regulators to remove Maiden Pharma goods from the market. The products may have been dis...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- Sterilisation deaths: Drug company had faced action earlierIn 2010-11, the Food and Drug Administration had cancelled 'product permission' of six drugs manufactured by the company for being substand...
- 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...
- 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...
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