Alert: Sale of antibiotics without approval

Antimicrobial resistance is continuously decreasing in people of the country. The sale of antibiotics of non-approved antibiotics is followed. This claim has been made in a report. A report from London's Queen Mary University and Newcastle University said that thousands of medicines sold in Indian markets are not regulated in India, US or UK.

It was found that between 2007 and 2012, 64 percent of 118 forms of fixed-dose combinations sold in India were not approved by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization. Explain that the sale and supply of new drugs of non-sanctioned drugs in India is illegal. According to the report, only four percent of FDC (medicines made from two or more formulations of drugs) are allowed in the US or the UK. Antibiotics are the most used in India. There is a problem of resistance to the use of antibiotics without approval (which are not prepared properly by FDC). FDC's antibiotics are manufactured by around 500 manufacturers and are sold with more than 3,300 brand names. Of these, 12 are multinational companies.