Indian drug companies have cornered an overwhelming majority of drug approvals under the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
The only category of pharmaceuticals that showed a negative growth in exports this time was herbal products, exports of which stood at $299 million as compared to $ 312 million in the previous year.
The US subsidiary of Sun Pharmaceuticals, Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, has received a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration.
India's largest drug manufacturer, Ranbaxy Laboratories, had falsified data and test results of medicines manufactured at its Himachal Pradesh facility to obtain marketing approval in the United States, says the US Food and Drug Administration.
Maharashtra government on Friday decided to put a ban on Maggi noodles after some samples were found to contain lead above the permissible limit.
If the company manages to get a go-ahead from the regulator for this plant, it might result in resumption of supplies of several of their products, barred from the US last year.
Beside the defence forces in India, the start-up has shipped around 350,000 units to 12 countries -- the United Kingdom, France, Poland, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kenya, South Africa, Romania, Indonesia, Qatar and Oman.
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Drug major Wockhardt has challenged the US patent of Stalevo, a new generation combination drug for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, originated by Finland-based Orion Corporation and marketed by Novartis.
Despite the ongoing trouble India's largest drug maker, Ranbaxy, is facing in the United States, domestic pharmaceutical companies are betting high on the world's largest drug market with added vigour.
Ranbaxy's shares jumped almost 10 per cent, having long been depressed by escalating investigations from the US Food and Drug Administration, triggering a ban, which is still in place, that stops the US importing or purchasing the company's drugs. Daiichi Sankyo, the Japanese drugmaker, reiterated on Wednesday that it would stick to its June offer to buy Ranbaxy in spite of its recent troubles.
In May this year, Ranbaxy had pleaded guilty to 'felony charges' for violating manufacturing norms and agreed to pay $500 million penalty to US authorities.
Last year, the USFDA had banned 30 generic drugs produced at Ranbaxy's plants at Poanta Sahib.
The matter is now expected to be raised with the PMO.
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US experts were pondering on the safety of food imported into US from developing countries. In lieu of this thought process, a new trend has emerged in America of preferring locally produced food. This trend is affecting Wal Mart and Whole Foods too. It has been observed that when food travels far, the local community are the least benefitted out of the exports. But the trend to grow more locally will seriously affect nations that depend largely on agricultural exports.
The Uttar Pradesh Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said it has found detergent in one of the samples of Mother Dairy's milk packets, a claim contested by the Delhi-based company.
Amid reports of a US Congress probe against India's largest drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories, data show that many leading multinational companies such as Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Merck are also under the scanner of the US drug regulator, for more or less similar violations as Ranbaxy is alleged to have committed.
Even smaller companies like Torrent Pharma and Alembic file five to 10 ANDAs every year.
Earlier in April, Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries announced acquisition of Ranbaxy in an all-share deal.
"We are responding to all queries from US FDA and will emerge as a stronger player in the world's biggest pharmaceutical market," Ranbaxy Chairman and Managing Director Malvinder Singh said. The US, which accounts for 20 per cent of Ranbaxy's $1.5-billion annual turnover, has an import restriction on 30 of its medicines by the US Food and Drugs Authority.
In its daily briefing, the government also reported Goa is now free of coronavirus.
Drug major Ranbaxy Laboratories could suffer a potential revenue loss to the tune of Rs 300 crore (Rs 3 billion) due to delay in receiving approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for generic version of GSK's anti-migraine medicine Imitrex, according to analysts.
Two United States senators have asked the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) to provide details of market approvals given to all medicines sold by India's largest drug-maker Ranbaxy in that country.
All medicines that have USFDA approvals continue to be produced in the Poanta Sahib facility. The USFDA has not given any approval for new drugs as they have some concerns. We are addressing them, Malvinder Singh said.
Ranbaxy Laboratories on Wednesday hit out at rivals -- "a multinational and a leading Indian company" -- for trying to bring down its share by "spreading confusion and speculation" in the wake of a motion filed in the US accusing it of fraudulent practice and submission of false information to the US FDA.
Investment in market leaders with a safety-first approach could yield reasonable returns across sectors.
A key lesson for the pharmaceutical sector in this case is to not downplay the significant impact that regulatory non-compliance can have on operations.
Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Tuesday it has received US Food and Drug Administration's approval for manufacturing and marketing cardiovascular drug -- Atenolol tablets in the US.
The Competition Commission of India and the US Federal Trade Commission are yet to give their nod to the biggest pharma merger and acquisition deal this year in the Asia-Pacific region.
The recall was initiated by the company on January 21
Indian women may consider it sacred to adorn 'Sindoor' (vermilion) on their foreheads, but the United States government has warned against using a particular brand of this toxic 'red powder' due to high lead content.
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc, has signed a $27 million royalty deal with international healthcare investment fund Paul Capital Partners' Royalty Fund to finance the development of 16 dermatological products by the pharma major for the US market.
Of the 23 Indian billionaires mentioned in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, only one saw a reduction in net worth, with the companies owned by most of them outperforming the Nifty 50 index by a big margin.
Alembic Ltd has launched a 4th Generation Injectable Cephalosporin Cefepime under the brand name of Cepime.
The company's market value rose by Rs 1,684.87 crore.
Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd on Tuesday said it has decided to discontinue all its 'Valdecoxib' formulations with immediate effect from Indian markets.
Unhappy with Chinese machinery and raw materials they have been importing so far, Pakistani pharmaceutical companies are now longing to increase their business ties with India, and asked New Delhi to relax the "stringent visa norms".
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