"Confidence in the vaccine is what brings us here this morning," the US vice-president said in remarks following his vaccination. "I didn't feel a thing. Well done."
The Bharatiya Janata Party in Maharashtra objected to the pharma executive's grilling by Mumbai police, saying the Shiv Sena-led government in the state was playing politics amid the pandemic.
If the DCGI grants regular marketing authorisation, Covishied will be the second vaccine in the world to receive such approval.
FDA allows Teva to launch Nexium generic; Cipla, which supplies formulation, to gain
The FDA issued the letter on October 15, and has given the company 15 days to respond.
India is engaged with American entities for procurement of COVID-19 vaccines from the United States and their possible manufacturing in the country subsequently, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday.
India consistently ranked among the top three countries whose products were rejected for import by the regulator.
The United States has so far allocated only 7.5 million doses of Covid vaccines to India, which is not enough, a top Indian-American Congressman said while urging the Biden Administration to do more.
Ranbaxy, which is 63.5 per cent-owned by Japan's Daiichi Sankyo Co and gets more than 40 per cent of its sales from the United States, did not immediately respond to a request on Wednesday for comment on the FDA observations.
On Oct 14, the Maharashtra unit of FDA had ordered recall of entire stock of Kachha Mango Bite from the marketplace.
Sun Pharmaceutical's acquisition of Ranbaxy has received final approvals.
With the maximum dose gap of four months for Covishield, a large part of the population would not even be eligible for the second dose by the end of this year, report Ruchika Chitravanshi and Ishaan Gera.
Fast Moving Consumer Goods major Nestle may face more action by the Uttar Pradesh Food Safety and Drug Administration, which is testing more batches of Maggi after ordering recall of a batch of about 2 lakh packs of the instant noodles due to higher than permitted levels of lead and a food additive.
All of Ranbaxy's India-based factories are currently banned by the FDA from exporting medicines to the United States, the company's largest market, after the regulator's inspection found violation of its so-called good manufacturing practices.
The move comes in the wake of many facilities of Ranbaxy in India being barred by the US Food and Drugs Administration for supplying medicines to the US.
The Indian Council of Medical Research will start national-level sero surveys to assess the spread of Covid-19 and all states/Union territories should also be encouraged to conduct them so that information from all geographies can be collected, the Union health ministry said on Friday.
Food and Drug Authority Ghana said in a statement that officials of Bliss GVS Pharma of India and Ghanaian drug maker Tobinco Pharmaceuticals have apologised to it for importing 'fake malaria medicine' to Ghana to treat malaria in children.
The country's drug companies have attracted the highest number of enforcements from the American drug regulator in 2013, a year that has seen the US Food and Drug Administration turning stricter to ensure compliance levels and quality of medicines.
The US Congressional committee, which is inquiring into the country's Food and Drug Administration's handling of drug-marketing approvals of India's leading drug-maker Ranbaxy, has extended its probe into similar permissions given to Iceland's Actavis.
The first drug to treat low sexual desire in premenopausal women, dubbed "female Viagra", has been approved in the United States, but with a warning about potentially dangerous side effects such as severe low blood pressure and fainting.
'We are in close touch with Indian officials at all levels. We are also closely coordinating with our allies, friends, and Quad partners about how we can collectively support India in its hour of need,' a senior Biden administration official told reporters
The recall is the latest in a series of problems to hit Ranbaxy, which has had all its India factories stopped from sending drugs and ingredients to the United States.
The central government is importing COVID-19 vaccines and is in talks with COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy said.
'WHO issued an emergency use listing for Covovax, expanding the basket of WHO-validated vaccines against COVID-19. The vaccine is produced by the Serum Institute of India under licence from Novavax,' the world health body said in a tweet on Friday.
Indian drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to market an oral suspension form of Warner Chilcott's Duricef antibiotic, the Bombay Stock Exchange
Drugmaker Dr Reddy's Laboratories has filed an application with the US Food and Drug Administration to market a generic form of Eli Lilly's schizophrenia drug Olanzapine in the US
JB Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd on Thursday announced the filing of its first Abbreviated New Drug Application with the United States Food and Drug Administration.
With the US education system operating independently from the government, universities are adopting varying strategies when it comes to Covid vaccination.
The US Food and Drug Administration has tightened rules for selling dietary supplements in the US market, making compliance with current good manufacturing practices mandatory for manufacturers.
Trump has been aggressively promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19 patients.
Wockhardt Ltd said on Tuesday it has got US Food and Drug Administration's approval to market painkiller tablets containing a combination of Dextropropoxyphene napsylate and Acetaminophen in the US market.
The weakness in the stock was because of inspections by the American drug regulator at its Halol plant in Gujarat which resulted in eight observations, as well as a downward revision of speciality drug payoffs.
The results reported from the observational studies, on average, show that vaccination had 95 per cent efficacy against severe disease both from the Delta variant and from the Alpha variant, and over 80 per cent efficacy at protecting against any infection from these variants.
Various domestic companies such as Ranbaxy, Wockhardt and Agila Specialities recently came under the US FDA scanner for lapse in manufacturing practices.
Post Ranbaxy episode, domestic pharma companies may face frequent inspections and deeper scrutiny.
The US drug regulator raised the issue of significant deviations from the current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) in three of DRRD's plants in a letter issued in November 2015
The US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has issued a warning letter to RPG Life Sciences for violation of current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) norms at its two plants at Ankleshwar and Mumbai.
Travel companies are expecting a heavy rush to the US following the withdrawal of curbs on fully vaccinated travellers from select countries, including India, on November 8. The move will benefit those holding long-term tourist, business, and work visas. Also, new and extra flights by Air India and American Airlines are expected to provide better travel options.
As part of the charm offensive, New Delhi has invited global regulators -- including the FDA -- to visit Indian production units to get first-hand evidence of measures taken to ensure the quality of locally manufactured generics.
Researchers at McGill University in Canada carried out a survey of 28 experts working in vaccinology in late June 2020. The majority of those surveyed were mostly Canadian or American academics with an average of 25 years of experience working in the field.
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