Calcium, Vitamin D3 tablets among 49 drugs that fail quality tests

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The drugs control panel also flagged four medicines which were manufactured by fake companies...

Calcium 500 mg and Vitamin D3 tablets manufactured by Life Max Cancer Laboratories were among the drugs that failed quality test..

The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has published its monthly report for September, identifying 49 pharmaceutical products that did not meet the required quality standards out of a total of 3,000 sampled drugs...

According to CDSCO Chief Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi, only about 1% of all drugs tested failed to meet quality benchmarks, indicating that the stringent monitoring measures are effectively controlling substandard drug production...