Paracetamol tablet which is consumed during fever has failed the quality test. Apart from this, many medicines of calcium, vitamin D, anti-diabetes are also included in this list. This list has been uploaded by Indian Drugs Regulator Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) on its official website, which is of the month of August. It has been told that there are more than 50 medicines which are not according to the standard quality. Earlier also in June, a similar list was released, which also had the names of 52 medicines including paracetamol.
For quality checking, samples of medicines are taken randomly from different states every month and then they are tested. There are 53 medicines including Vitamin C and D3 tablets Shelcal, Vitamin B complex and Vitamin C softgel, antacid Pan-D, Paracetamol tablets IP 500 mg, diabetes medicine Glimepiride, high blood pressure medicine Telmisartan etc., which could not pass the quality test.
These medicines are manufactured by companies like Alkem Health Science Unit-2, Maze Lifesciences, M/s Pure & Cure Healthcare Pvt Ltd, M/s Scott Edil Ltd. The government data contains details of the medicines’ manufacturing date, expiry date, batch number, product name etc. Paracetamol Tablets IP 500 mg, manufactured by M/s Karnataka Antibiotics & Pharma, has also failed the quality check.
Besides, a drug-testing laboratory in Kolkata has deemed Alkem Health Science’s antibiotics Clavam 625 and Pan D as fake. The same lab has identified Hyderabad-based Hetero’s Cepodem XP 50 dry suspension, prescribed for children with severe bacterial infections, as substandard.