After the fall of the al-Assad regime in Syria, large stockpiles of the illicit drug captagon have reportedly been uncovered. The stockpiles, found by Syrian rebels, are believed to be linked to al-Assad military headquarters, implicating the fallen regime in the drug’s manufacture and distribution. But as we’ll see, captagon was once a pharmaceutical drug, similar to some of the …
The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation has cautioned against the manufacture and sale of unapproved drugs specifically warning against drugs falling under the category of “New Drugs”. The organisation citing the example of drugs – Meropenem and Disodium EDTA – noted that they have got information that some manufacturers are involved in manufacturing/marketing of unapproved drugs which CDSCO does not …
Cities nationwide are bracing for peaks of COVID-19 infections, and pharmaceutical companies in Yantai, a coastal city in East China's Shandong province, are working at full capacity to meet surging anti-fever drug orders. Production lines at Yantai Luyin Pharmaceutical Company in the city's Zhifu district are running at full capacity, which is increasing the market supply of medicine for COVID-19 …
The country’s deficient drug regulation system has come under scrutiny again after 69 children in Gambia died after consuming cough syrups manufactured by a Haryana-based pharmaceutical company. It is not the first time that bad recordkeeping along with the passing of substandard medicines without proper quality checks has raised health concerns for people. It is obvious that pharmaceutical firms are …
