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JAMMU, Jan 9: The Drug and Food Control Organisation conducted a massive drive across Jammu division to ensure the pharmaceutical preparations comprising of Habit Forming drugs are being stocked/sold in consonance to the prescriptions being raised for licit use only and records of such drugs are being maintained under rules besides to make sure that quality and genuine medicines are provided to the end users. The special drive was conducted under the direct supervision of Assistant Drugs Control...

The DCGI said India has been committed to rigorous monitoring and oversight to ensure that the highest standards of manufacture are maintained in quality control of drugs and cosmetics.

A few months after the major crackdown on the racket circulating spurious blood pressure medicine Telma 40 in Cuttack, duplicate Clavam 625 capsules have been seized in Bhubaneswar and Jharsuguda raising grave concerns over the alleged rampant circulation and sale of such fake drugs in the state.

Although the primary responsibility is of the drug manufacturer, regulatory oversight should have sent alarm bells ringing for the drug regulator, according to experts who have urged a probe following the WHO’s suspicion that 66 children might have died in The Gambia,

The alert by the World Health Organisation (WHO) over the deaths of 66 Gambian infants, suspected to have been caused by the consumption of contaminated cough syrups made by a Sonepat firm, Maiden Pharmaceuticals, has raised serious questions about the probity of drug manufacturing and regulatory pr

The state authority has warned Maiden Pharmaceuticals to reply within seven days, failing which the officials will take ex-parte action against the firm as per the drugs act.

Following the WHO’s warning, the centre is looking into four cough syrups that may be responsible for at least 66 child deaths in The Gambia. India has already been under fire for exporting fake and substandard medications, but it also has a similar issue at home. Indian-made cough syrups are being investigated in connection with

Regarding the 66 deaths in Gambia allegedly due to the intake of cough syrup manufactured by Maiden Pharmaceutical Limited in Sonipat, Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij told ANI that the Centre has sent samples to the Central Drug Laboratory, Kolkata, and if any irregularities are found, it will take strict action.

Uniindia: Lucknow, Oct 1 (UNI) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that the state government is determined to ensure the availability of safe and healthy food as well as medicines to the 25 crore people of the state and under no circumstances manufacturing, sale and distribution of substandard, fake, adulterated or banned drugs will be allowed.

In view of the festive season, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has issued instructions to start a state-wide campaign to ensure the purity of food items and said that adulteration is playing with the lives of common people and it will not be tolerated under any circumstances.