Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 9: Jammu Pharmaceutical Distributors Association (JPDA), Jammu Province conducted a seminar on the topic ‘Misuse of Habit Forming Medicines & The Way Forward’, last evening. The chief guest on the occasion was Ramesh Kumar (Divisional Commissioner Jammu) and guest of honour was Lotika Khajuria (State Drugs Controller, J&K UT). In his opening remarks, Rakesh Gupta (president of the Association) apprised the participants who were from both the wholesale and retail business of medicines that drugs/medicines under […]
The quality of drugs manufactured in the state has once again come under the scanner with propofol injections manufactured by Nixi Laboratories, Kala Amb, reportedly causing five deaths at the PGI, Chandigarh.
The Drugs Control Administration (DCA) has directed a pharmaceutical company at Kala Amb in Himachal’s Sirmaur district to stop manufacturing controversial injection Propofol following lab reports that it did not conform to the India Pharmacopoeia (IP) 2018 monograph nor met the quality standa
A team of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) and Haryana State Drugs Controller have collected samples of four cough syrups manufactured by Sonepat-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals over their alleged links to the deaths of dozens of children in west Africa.