CDSCO reports 49 drugs, including calcium and Vitamin D3 tablets, failed quality tests in September. Several flagged as spurious and recalled to ensure public safety.
CDSCO has released two lists of pharmaceuticals that did not pass quality checks: one "Not of Standard Quality" naming 48 popular drugs and another with answers from pharmaceutical companies whose products failed to meet the safety standards.
Mumbai-headquartered pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Wockhardt has categorically denied allegations labeled by the Congress party against the company.
Johnson & Johnson offered to pay $9 billion to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits that alleged that its baby powder and other talc-based products cause cancer.
Dr VG Somani further wrote in this letter, "It may be emphasized here that the Gambia informed that there has been no direct causal relation established yet between the cough syrup consumption and the deaths, and that certain children who had died had not consumed the syrup in question