The WHO cannot confirm a link between the instances at this time. Disturbingly, there have been reported cases of India-manufactured syrups with diethylene glycol or ethylene glycol contamination, leading to fatalities in...
The NITI Ayog also suggested creating a separate authority to regulate medical devices in the country which is currently being monitored by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI).
Around 700 pharmaceutical companies are based in Himachal Pradesh, including industry leaders Dr Reddy, Sun Pharma, and Glenmark. The recoveries of spurious drugs in recent years has, however, affected the industry’s image...
In a statement by Bharat Biotech, it added that the recall was initiated utilising the principle of abundant precaution based on test results of field samples by the Central Drugs Laboratory.
More than 30,000 new cases of BTC are seen in India every year with 90 per cent of them diagnosed in the advanced stage
Health authorities abroad have alleged in recent months that Indian medicines, ranging from cough syrups to eye drops, have caused sickness and death. Such allegations risk denting the image of India that otherwise plays a...
Director General Foreign Trade (DGFT) Santosh Kumar Sarangi said all pharmaceutical products must meet global standards and quality requirements
PLI scheme aims to give companies incentives on incremental sales from products manufactured in domestic units
Uzbek authorities have said toxic ethylene glycol was found in one batch of Dok-1 cough syrup manufactured in India and sold in Uzbekistan.
Due to lack of product demand, Production stoppage of Covaxin- a two dose jab, was initiated by Bharat Biotech earlier this year, though the vaccine maker has...
WHO had highlighted that a significant contributing factor to the deaths was suspected to be the use of medicines that may have been contaminated with...
The CBI has arrested Joint Drugs Controller S Eswara Reddy, Associate Vice President of Biocon Biologics L Praveen Kumar, and three others in a case of alleged...
Biocon Biologics, a subsidiary of Kiran Mazumdar Shaw-led Biocon, however, denied the allegations of bribery.
Director-Government and Regulatory Affairs at Serum Institute of India (SII) Prakash Kumar Singh had submitted an application to the DCGI on February 21,...
The two-dose vaccine uses adenoviruses that infect chimpanzees to carry the gene responsible for the spike protein of the novel coronavirus.
The government had recently permitted the export of 2 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine Covovax to Indonesia produced in India by SII, as the jab had not yet...
Covid-19: The two vaccines Corbevax and Covovax have been cleared by the Centre. With this approval, the number of Covid-19 vaccines which have received...
This approval of shelf life extension is based on the availability of additional stability data, which Bharat Biotech submitted to Central Drugs Standard...
