FDA officials unearthed a fake drug racket in Bidadi
FDA has cancelled licences of 16 wholesale and retail pharmacies and suspended those of eight others. No adverse drug reactions (ADRs) linked to the drugs have been reported so far, officials said.
The minister said the govt would now identify patients who may have received the suspected drugs. FDA officials said none of the suspected spurious drugs linked to the case remained in circulation in Karnataka. Bengaluru: Karnataka health minister UT Khader Monday ordered suspension of an assistant drug controller for failure to lock the wholesale pharmacy owned by alleged kingpin of Bengaluru’s drug racket even after his arrest and spurious drugs were seized from its premises. The lapse came to light as Food Safety and Drug Administration (FDA) intensified action against pharmacies allegedly linked to the distribution of suspected spurious drugs seized from a farmhouse near Bidadi, near Bengaluru, in August. Several of these establishments are located inside hospitals. FDA has cancelled the licence of the main pharmacy at St Philomena’s Hospital, Viveknagar, and one pharmacy at Sagar Hospitals, Kumaraswamy Layout. Licences of pharmacies at Sagar Hospitals, Tilak Nagar, and Surya Speciality Hospital, Bommasandra, have been suspended. By the time FDA conducted its drive, officials found suspected spurious drug stock had been exhausted. The batch numbers have been frozen on FDA’s drug portal, blocking sale or distribution. FDA restricts Pfizer drug supply