CDSCO Flags 7 Batches of Popular Medicines as Purportedly Spurious in December

All the above batches were reported by CDSCO laboratories and state drug testing laboratories, including RDTL Chandigarh, Food & Drugs Laboratory, Vadodara, and FDAL Mumbai, during routine testing and surveillance.

According to CDSCO, “The product is purported to be spurious; however, the same is subject to the outcome of the investigation.”

In line with the official firm replies recorded in the CDSCO data, the manufacturers informed regulators that the impugned batch of the product has not been manufactured by them and that it is a spurious drug.

In accordance with the Drug and Cosmetic Act, a drug shall be deemed to be spurious—

(a) if it is imported under a name which belongs to another drug; or

(b) if it is an imitation of, or a substitute for, another drug or resembles another drug in a manner likely to deceive or bears upon it or upon its label or container the name of another drug unless it is plainly and conspicuously marked so as to reveal its true character and its lack of identity with such other drug; or

(c) if the label or the container bears the name of an individual or company purporting to be the manufacturer of the drug, which individual or company is fictitious or does not exist; or

(d) if it has been substituted wholly or in part by another drug or substance; or

(e) if it purports to be the product of a manufacturer of whom it is not truly a product

Medicines Flagged as Spurious