HYDERABAD, APRIL 01, 2025: Officials of Drugs Control Administration, Telangana, has been maintaining a vigilant stance, actively monitoring and detecting various offences related to spurious drugs, misleading advertisements, quacks, illegal stocking and sale of drugs, and seizing drugs that were falsely manufactured and sold under the guise of ‘food products/nutraceuticals’.
In the month of March, 2025, the Drugs Control Administration, Telangana, carried out 65 seizures related to various offences involving medicines. The DCA busted a spurious drugs racket, detected 50 misleading advertisements by various drug firms, two unlicensed medical shops, seven quacks and unlicensed stocking and sale of drugs, two medicines falsely manufactured and sold as nutraceuticals, three expired drugs, physicians’ samples, improper storage etc.
During the raids conducted in March 2025, the DCA seized stocks worth Rs. 3.03 lakhs. The Drug Control Administration, Telangana, detected several substandard drugs circulating in the State. In March 2025, the Drug Control Laboratory reported 15 Not of Standard Quality (substandard) drugs.
The drugs declared as Not of Standard Quality by the Drugs Control Laboratory, DCA, Hyderabad, in March included antibiotics, antiulcer drugs, antihelmintic and antiprotozoal drugs, etc. The samples failed in the tests for assay, dissolution, and description, which may render the medicines ineffective in treating diseases.
Seizure of Spurious Drugs (Counterfeit Versions) ‘Montek-LC’ Tablets (Montelukast Sodium and Levocetirizine Hydrochloride Tablets), falsely claimed to be manufactured by Sun Pharma Laboratories Ltd. On 5th March, DCA officials, acting on credible information, raided the premises of Sri Nandini Pharma in Sultan Bazar, Hyderabad, and found stocks of thermolabile (temperature-sensitive) medicines—Tetanus Vaccine and Oxytocin Injections—stored at room temperature on racks along with other general drugs. Tetanus Vaccine and Oxytocin Injections should be stored in a refrigerator at 2°C to 8°C to maintain their stability and efficacy.
