In an inspection drive at Bengaluru, Belagavi and Hubballi, the drug inspectors from the state department have picked up 11 not of standard quality drugs a fortnight ago.
The drugs seized and tested from random pharmacy outlets were part of the regular surprise inspections by the state enforcement team.
This exercise enables to ensure the good quality drugs are made available at the pharmacy outlets for chemists, said Karnataka drugs controller BT Khanapure.
The drugs are Pantoprazole gastro resistant tablets sold under the brand name Pantin manufactured by Hetero Labs at Solan district. Zericef-500 which contains the active ingredient cefuroxime axetil, tablets manufactured by JM Laboratories in Solan district. Speclon antiseptic soap by SRS Industries at Haridwar. Lomonex which contains loperamide hydrochloride tablets by Gopish Pharma in Solan district. Prozole-D which are rabeprazole and domperidone tablets by Concorde Drugs by Roorkee. Another pantoprazole tablet of 40 mg manufactured by Deepin Pharmaceuticals at Depalpur in Madhya Pradesh along with Pantodus by Ultra Drugs in Solan district was also found to be of not of standard quality. Leadcet tablets containing levocetirizine manufactured at MMC Healthcare plant located at Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh. Permethrin soap manufactured by Rajvi Biotech at Gandhinagar. Lopar which contains
loperamide hydrochloride manufcured by Gopish Pharma at Solan and Parace tablets containing aceclofenac and paracetamol was manufactured by Parkin Laboratories in Roorkee in Uttarkhand were also not of standard quality.The department has also intimated to all chemist outlets, hospital pharmacies in the state to refrain from stocking these drugs. Physicians are informed not to prescribe these drugs, and the public, through various media outlets has been warned not to purchase these drugs over the counter.
