Mumbai: India exports drugs worth more than 15 billion dollars every year, a majority of which are US-bound. Questions are being raised about the standards and quality, after Ranbaxy's whopping 500 million dollar settlement with the US government.
The generic drugs in question were manufactured at Ranbaxy's plants in Paonta Sahib and Dewas in India. They include acne drug Sotret, epilepsy and nerve-pain drug Gabapentin and antibiotic Ciprofloxacin.
Possibly a larger question, when it comes to India's trillion rupee generic drugs industry - where does this leave Indian patients? Drug Expert CM Gulati said, "We need more vigorous and robust quality control system in India. Our problem in India is slightly different from the problem in United States. Here what happens is even if a drug is of high quality when it leaves the premises of the manufacturer by the time it is sold to the patient it becomes sub-standard. And the reason is that the transport of the drugs is not proper, drugs are transported from one place to another in non-refrigerated trucks even when they are temperature sensitive medicines."
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