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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 Controllers and overall […]

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