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Medication News
Why does India not have a law to recall bad drugs from the market?
In a rare occurrence, on April 25, Abbot, a multinational pharmaceutical company, published a public notice in newspapers alerting people about a mislabelled batch of medicine that it had inadvertently shipped to the market. While such recalls take place regularly in the U.S., including by Indian companies, we have never witnessed domestic or foreign pharmaceutical companies recall substandard or mislabelled drugs in India.
