The alert was issued for a batch of substandard (contaminated) Guaifenesin Syrup TG Syrup. The substandard product was identified in the Ma...

The WHO also issued a medical product alert asking regulators to remove Maiden Pharma goods from the market. The products may have been dis...

Pharmaceutical companies that market medicines made by third parties in the country will now be held responsible for drug product quality w...

The surveys and reports point to the need for handling of the problem of substandard and counterfeit drugs .

A review of the annual reports of the country’s top 10 pharma companies shows that words like “counterfeit”, “spurious" or “fake” drugs do ...

The move is expected to check lapses in quality of medicines consumed by patients in the country, according to persons aware of the develop...

According to the proposal, the sites will be inspected if they have made substandard drugs, received quality complaints, or faced action by...

WHO has received reports of substandard or falsified medical products ranging from cancer treatment to contraception.

The Pantocid and Pantocid DSR tested by CDSCO were not manufactured by Sun Pharma, the official spokesperson for the Mumbai-based drug make...

Medications can be compromised in many different ways. For example, they may be bulked up with fillers, or they can degrade because they ar...

This result also implies that substandard drugs sold in India has dipped from 2011-2015, when roughly 4-5% of the total samples were declar...

Scientists report in a collection of journal articles that up to 41 % of specimens failed to meet quality standards in global studies.

In 2010-11, the Food and Drug Administration had cancelled 'product permission' of six drugs manufactured by the company for being substand...

Sushil Kumar Modi told reporters that 'substandard' medicines were purchased from six 'blacklisted' companies in January this year and supp...

Despite efforts globally, sales of fake medicines are rising rapidly, and the menace could be worse than the health threat posed by Big Tob...

The government has decided to initiate investigation against suspected exporters of substandard drugs on information provided by its missio...

The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) is planning a survey to detect the quantum of spurious and substandard drugs being sold to unsu...