Agra based Madhav Pharma sealed for selling fake vitamin tablets
New Delhi: Drugs Control Department of Delhi sealed an Agra based pharmaceutical company named Madhav Pharma after it was caught selling sub-standard and fake vitamin-D tablets red handed on Thursday. This govt body regulates the manufacturing and sale of various drugs and cosmetics.
The use of Vitamin D Tablets have seen a tremendous rise in the past few years with a arrival of COVID-19 pandemic.
According to an official, the department received a complaint from another Pharma company called Macleods Pharmaceuticals which stated that they had found that fake tablets were being sold in Delhi with their company name in the last week of December.
Following this, the drugs control department here developed intelligence and conducted a raid on January 19 and seized some samples as a proof. The seized samples were tested and some of them were found to be sub-standard and some fake, the official said.
The department traced the source of the tablets and found they were coming from Agra. A team of the department went there and informed the local authorities, following which Madhav Pharma, the company that was selling the tablets, was sealed. The department is investigating where the tablets were being manufactured, the official added.
Medical Dialogues Team had earlier reported that the Uttar Pradesh officials had busted a racket of counterfeit COVID-19 vaccines including Covisheild and Zycov-D vaccine as well as fake COVID test kits. The police had arrested all the accused from Varanasi and seized fake vaccines and kits worth Rs 4 crore.
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