Articles for Drug Regulation

Huang Guo meets with Danish ambassador to China
3 months ago

Huang Guo meets with Danish ambassador to China

China Daily  

On Sept 10, Huang Guo, deputy commissioner of China's National Medical Products Administration, met with a delegation led by Michael Starbaek Christensen, Danish ambassador to China. The two sides exchanged views on bilateral cooperation in drug regulation, drug regulation reform, and support for the development of international corporations in China. He said that since 2013, the drug regulatory authorities of …

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Spotlight | Telangana’s pill predicament
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Spotlight | Telangana’s pill predicament

The Hindu  

The mehendi was too dark to be real. However, even after Telangana DCA seized medicines manufactured by Lifecare Ayurvedic in Rajasthan, these falsified drugs continue to be sold across multiple online platforms. Despite drug regulation falling under the jurisdiction of the Central government, ‘public health’ is constitutionally a State subject in India, granting State governments significant control over drug regulation. …

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Book Review | Shocking study on drug regulation leaves us wiser
1 year, 9 months ago

Book Review | Shocking study on drug regulation leaves us wiser

Deccan Chronicle  

This might be one of the scariest books you’d ever read. A complaint was filed by the Tamil Nadu Drug Control Administration against the Chennai-based Alfred Berg & Co for claiming to sell Glipizide, for Type 2 diabetes but actually substituted it for Glibenclamide, also a diabetes drug but with a slower metabolization than Glipizide. Justice Krishna Iyer noted in …

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Book Review: ‘The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India’ by Dinesh S. Thakur and Prashant Reddy T.
1 year, 10 months ago

Book Review: ‘The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India’ by Dinesh S. Thakur and Prashant Reddy T.

The Hindu  

Published : Jan 26, 2023 10:25 IST Truth, they say, is a bitter pill to swallow. The Truth Pill by Dinesh S. Thakur and Prashant Reddy is replete with bitter truths about India’s drug regulatory architecture, which calls for some soul-searching by policymakers. The authors argue that the manufacturing and the quality of life-saving drugs and medicines are an issue …

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Why India needs a national law to recall drugs
2 years ago

Why India needs a national law to recall drugs

Live Mint  

In 2004, India’s largest pharmaceutical company, Ranbaxy, was accused of largescale fabrication of drug test reports and sale of poor quality medicines in markets with weaker regulatory systems. Behind the years-long investigation was whistleblower Dinesh S. Thakur, who has now written a book, along with lawyer Prashant Reddy T. In The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India, …

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Cough syrup row: 'Habitual offender' firm cleared to export substandard drugs, says whistleblower | Exclusive
2 years, 2 months ago

Cough syrup row: 'Habitual offender' firm cleared to export substandard drugs, says whistleblower | Exclusive

India Today  

The World Health Organization recently flagged cough syrups manufactured by Indian firm Maiden Pharmaceuticals after the death of 66 children in The Gambia. Dinesh Thakur, the whistleblower who exposed dangerous practices in generic drug industry in 2013, has co-authored a book titled 'The Truth Pill' along with public health activist T Prashant Reddy. As we document in our book – …

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A new legislation that mirrors the old
2 years, 5 months ago

A new legislation that mirrors the old

The Hindu  

The Union Health Ministry recently published a new draft Bill to replace the antiquated Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. The federalism question The one issue that has come up in every review of the drug regulatory system since 1947 has been the uneven enforcement of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act across India. This is because, unlike the U.S. which has …

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