The US president said the drug has gotten a bad reputation only because 'he was promoting it'.
Lupin Ltd received US Food & Drug Administration's approval for its abbreviated new drug application for Cefuroxime Axetil tablets.
Rosier year-end seen for Indian pharma thanks to faster US approvals.
Ranbaxy Laboratories has received tentative approval form the Food & Drug Administration USA for manufacturing and marketing Fluconazole tablets
The company was indicted for violations at one of its US facilities in 2009, even after Daiichi Sankyo took over as majority shareholder in 2008.
Ranbaxy Laboratories and the US health regulator are reportedly negotiating a settlement.
In April, Snapdeal had said it was delisting the drugs from its portal and was assisting the regulator in the investigation.
Flipkart, Amazon, too, under radar
'Rolling out the vaccine is not a major challenge in India.'
Ranbaxy's US factory, Ohm Laboratories, is learnt to have got a clean chit from the American regulator. This US facility was under surveillance of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since the end of 2012.
The FDA had imposed a ban on the company's Waluj plant in May.
Glenmark said it along with its US-based partner has got the US health regulator's nod to manufacture and market two oxycodone products, used for treating moderate to severe pain, in the American market. The company's US arm, Glenmark Generics Inc and Lehigh Valley Technologies (LVT) have received US Food and Drug Administration nod for Oxycodone immediate release capsules, the company said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.
When last month's advisory was issued, India was struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 3,00,000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported.
According to the chairman, there will be an annual loss of Rs 100 crore due to the MHRA alert on Waluj plant
After discussion with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the companies recently elected to drop the 32-case interim analysis and conduct the first interim analysis at a minimum of 62 cases, the statement said.
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.
There is no evidence that the drug can fight the virus, and regulators warn it may cause heart problems.
India consistently ranked among the top three countries whose products were rejected for import by the regulator.
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.
"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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If the DCGI grants regular marketing authorisation, Covishied will be the second vaccine in the world to receive such approval.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
