Maharashtra’s Food & Drugs Administration will perhaps top popularity charts among nutritionists. It’s pulled up McDonald’s for mislabelling cheese analogues as the real deal. Accurate labelling is not just about being fair to customers, it.
More than a month after Johnson & Johnson announced that it will stop the sale of its talc-based baby powder globally in 2023, the Indian state of Maharashtra on Friday cancelled the manufacturing license of the pharmaceutical company.
Reportedly, the state's Food & Drug Administration (FDA) cancelled the company's license to manufacture the baby powder citing an inspection where it found its premier baby product to be sub-standard in quality.
The Maharashtra government cancelled the license of Johnson & Johnson baby powder in the state after it was found that the pH value is above the mandated limit.
âI Was Aware Of Itâ, Says Maharashtra FDA Minister; Confirms That Remdesivir Arranged By BJP Was For The State Govt
Sanjay Raut and Devendra Fadnavis
In what turned out to be a storm in a tea-cup, the 60,000 vials of Remdesivir injections procured by the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was intended for the Maharashtra government, Foods & Drugs Administration Minister Dr. Rajendra Shingane admitted on Tuesday. I was aware of it. The BJP leaders had met me at my house along with the manufacturers representatives. They offered to help us procure the Remdesivir stocks for the state government and I agreed to it, Dr. Shingane told a local private TV channel.
Mumbai cops, FDA seize Remdesivir hoards
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Mumbai, April 20 : Continuing the drive against hoarders, the Maharashtra Food & Drugs Administration (FDA) along with Mumbai Police raided two locations and seized large stocks of the much-in-demand Remdesivir injections, an official said here on Tuesday.
In the first instance, the police-FDA teams swooped on the premises of an exporter and recovered 2,000 vials of Remdesivir from Marol in Andheri east.
In the second action, the teams raided another exporter based in Marine Lines, south Mumbai and seized 200 vials of the injection.