The report also said that in past DEG outbreaks, manufacturers have been suspected of substituting DEG in the place of more expensive, pharmaceutical-grade solvents.
Whistle-blower Dinesh Thakur will speak on Made-in-India drugs at an event in Washington.
Seeking to allay concerns over shortage of Remdesivir, the minister said the government held talks with pharma companies and ensured sufficient supply of the medicine for COVID-19 patients.
An International Policy Network report in 2010 found that seven per cent of drugs bought from wholesale traders were substandard, and 3.6 per cent of the drugs from traders contained no active ingredient whatsoever.
The move follows an FDA inspection of a Ranbaxy facility which identified significant violations of sound manufacturing practices.
Patients have become wary of India-made drugs after a number of reports highlighted their substandard quality.
As its factories resumed operations after over two-month of grim battle against coronavirus, China is busy tapping into the vast business opportunities of export of key medical goods, specially ventilators and personal protection equipment (PPE), across the world, including India, where both private and government bodies are placing orders for the import of these products.
Aneesh Phadnis and Veena Mani find out what the manufacturers and the hospitals have to say.
Singh brothers might be stopped by 'fit & proper' hurdle due to US drug norm violations; firm says confident of qualifying.
'The genetic thing is not in your control. The virulence is not known.' 'The only thing is if you can avoid it.' 'Once you get COVID-19, none of it is in your control.'
The surgeon, who has been arrested for conducting 83 sterilisation surgeries at a village in Bilaspur district that left 12 women dead, on Thursday accused the administration of framing him and blamed "poor quality" medicines supplied by the state government for the tragedy.
Dilip Shanghvi has never tried to be everything to everybody.
Surely even cleavage-obsessed filmmakers ought to, at first, be filmmakers, yes, asks Raja Sen.
While the state's decision to take the road to Prohibition has been given a communal twist, there are several political imperatives of the move
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