Do you trust your medicines to work? It could be tough if the numbers are anything to go by. Estimates show over 20% of the USD25 billion Indian market for drugs could be counterfeit or spurious. Government agencies put the number at below 5%. But recent probes point to something serious. Your drug may have talcum powder or just chalk. And so that uneasy question looms each time you have a bout of fever or cough that takes week after week to
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Sun Pharma, Torrent, Alkem under lens for inferior medicines. It points to a leaky supply chain.
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In the crosshairs of the latest controversy on whether a drug is spurious or “not of standard quality” is the Indian patient. The pharma industry suffered a body blow recently after government agencies pulled up over 50 popular medicine brands. How do patients trust their medicines?
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