-PTI/ NDTV.com The DCGI said Gambia has informed, according to media, that there has been no direct causal relation established yet between the cough syrup consumption and the deaths. New Delhi: The WHO drew a premature link between the deaths of children in Gambia and the four India-made cough syrups which adversely impacted the image of the country's pharmaceutical products across the globe, India's drug regulator has told the global health body. In...
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Maharashtra FDA recalls batch of anti-anaemic medicine after alleged cases of adverse reactions
-Scroll.in One persons died in Mumbai after allegedly being administered with Orofer FCM. The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration has announced that it will recall a batch of anti-anaemic medicine Orofer FCM after noting multiple incidents of alleged adverse reaction, including the suspected death of a 55-year-old man in Mumbai in September. Orofer FCM is manufactured by Pune-based Emcure Pharmaceuticals, which supplies medicines to 70 countries. It is administered in the form of...
More »How Telangana subverted India’s land acquisition law -Faustina Johnson
-Scroll.in In 2013, a new law sought to end land grab in India. Telangana showed how easy it was to undermine it, as it took over farmland for a 20,000-acre Pharma city. One day in early August 2021, Papi Reddy took a trip to the revenue office of Yacharam mandal, in Telangana’s Ranga Reddy District, He wanted to claim some money that was due to him under Rythu Bandhu, a state-sponsored agricultural...
More »Uttarakhand bans five ‘drugs’ made by Patanjali -Ishita Mishra
-The Hindu Uttarakhand authorities say that the formulation sheet of the drugs — Divya Madhugrit, Divya Eyegrit Gold, Divya Thyrogrit, Divya BPgrit, and Divya Lipidom — would be reviewed Authorities of Ayurvedic and Unani Services, Uttarakhand has asked Patanjali’s Divya Pharmacy to stop the production of five drugs as well as remove their advertisements in media. The pharmacy, which comes under the Patanjali company founded by yoga exponent Baba Ramdev, has been...
More »For Poor Manufacturing Practices, Indian Pharma Company Gets ‘Warning Letter’ From US FDA
-TheWire.in The US drug regulator says Lupin Limited's response to tackling genotoxic impurities was not adequate. New Delhi: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent a warning letter to the Indian pharmaceutical company Lupin Limited after deeming its efforts to address violations of various good manufacturing practices at its facility in Tarapur, Maharashtra “inadequate”. The FDA sends a ‘warning letter’ to a manufacturer if it has “significantly violated” the agency’s regulations....
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