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Govt extends ban on import of milk products from China for four months

Press Trust of India | New Delhi Last Updated at December 24, 2018 20:24 IST

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Tens of thousands die in Africa each year due to fake drugs

Sofia Christensen | HEALTH NEWS | NOVEMBER 15, 2018 / 8:05 PM

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Why Fighting Fake Meds Means Fighting AMR

Fight The Fakes | November 14, 2018

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WHO: 10% of medicine in developing countries fake or substandard

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus |November 28, 2017

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Inter College Poetry Contest in Collaboration with Satark

Nov 5, 2018 | Dr. Jayashree Gupta's Blog

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Can I fake your order?

By: Smitha Verma | May 13, 2018 | 8:15 PM

66 Tea Garden Workers Dead After Consuming Spurious Liquor in Assam, Govt Orders Probe

Rohit Gogoi | News18

The deaths come less than two weeks after more than 100 people died after drinking bootleg alcohol in northern India.

Drug resistance in sick babies - an increasing cause of worry for India

Maitri Porecha  New Delhi | January 26, 2019

‘Drug-resistant bugs make treatment hard’

ऐसे बन रहा था नकली देसी घी, छापा मारते ही अफसरों के होश उड़े

अमित शर्मा [ Edited By: आदित्य बिड़वई ] | 16 जनवरी 2019, अपडेटेड 16:41 IST

रेड में यहां पर स्टॉक में 13 हजार किलो घी पाया गया. इस स्टॉक में अलग- अलग क्वांटेटी के पैक सैंपल भरे गए. सारा स्टॉक सील कर दिया गया है. उन्होंने कहा कि उक्त सैंपल जांच के लिए भेजे जाएंगे. सैंपल की रिपोर्ट आने के बाद अगली कार्रवाई होगी तब तक स्टॉक सील रहेगा.

The right pill

By Christophe Hitayezu | Last Updated: Friday 04 January 2019

Africa will be setting up its first agency to check the spread of spurious drugs.

'Millions at risk' if antimalarial drug resistance spreads from Asia, doctors warn

By Siobhan Robbins, Southeast Asia correspondent, in Cambodia | Sunday 30 December 2018 02:39, UK

One by one, previous treatments are failing against a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people every year.

आखिर क्यों केंद्र सरकार ने लगाई चीन में बने दुग्ध उत्पादों पर रोक?

By Team MyNation | First Published 25, Dec 2018, 9:54 AM IST

केंद्र सरकार ने चीन से आयात होने वाले दुग्ध उत्पादों के आयात पर लगी रोक को अगले साल अप्रैल तक बढ़ाने का फैसला किया है। सरकार ने खाद्य उत्पादों में मेलामाइन नाम के रसायन मिलने के बाद करीब दस साल पहले चीन में बने दुग्ध उत्पादों के आयात करने पर प्रतिबंध लगा दिया था।

25 'call centres' busted in Noida since July, 300 'cyber thugs' held

PTI | Updated: Dec 23, 2018, 19:43 IST

On December 21, police arrested 126 people in its biggest action so far against a fake call centre in Noida.

Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $417m in lawsuit linking baby powder to cancer

Updated: Aug 22, 2017 10:40 IST | Associated Press

The verdict marks the largest sum awarded in a series of talcum powder lawsuit verdicts against Johnson & Johnson in courts around the US.

Counterfeits: The nightmare before Christmas

Dec. 14, 2018 | Kaarin Vembar

A recent congressional briefing warned consumers of the dangers of purchasing counterfeit goods, and how to avoid it.

Kerala govt bans 74 brands of coconut oil for food safety violations

TNM Staff | Wednesday, December 19, 2018 – 08:53

Tests showed that the banned brands showed signs of adulteration and were of sub-par quality.

Johnson&Johnson baby powder had asbestos, company knew for decades: Report

Updated: Dec 15, 2018 08:47 IST | Lisa Girion

A Reuters investigation showed US pharmaceutical and cosmetics group Johnson & Johnson marketed talc-based products that, at least between 1971 and the beginning in the 2000s, sometimes contained asbestos.

Opinion: To end malaria, we cannot ignore the reality of poor-quality medicines

By Ronald Piervincenzi, Delese Mimi Darko | 12 December 2018

The latest data from the World Health Organization shows progress against the disease has stalled.

Rwanda Bans Fake Drugs From India And China

By Staff Writer |  

Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has banned both Misoprostol and Oxytocin, two types of drugs used to prevent postpartum haemorrhage after finding out that they were substandard.

Are you being given fake medicines? Major bust in Uttar Pradesh reveals shocking truth

Mirror Now | Updated Dec 10, 2018 | 15:49 IST | Mirror Now Digital

A tip about antibiotics and other medicines being sold at discounts as high as 30 per cent led the officials to discover a fake medicine racket operating in Uttar Pradesh.

Why 'Make in India' when you 'Fake in India'

By Shephali Bhatt | ET Bureau | May 04, 2016, 05.20 AM IST

BE brings an in-depth analysis of the scale of counterfeit products in consumer good categories, and what brands and the government need to do.

FDA busts milk adulteration racket in Bhandup; over 120 litres of milk destroyed -

Mumbai Mirror | Updated: Nov 27, 2018, | Shruti Ganapatye

A big milk adulteration racket was busted early morning on Tuesday at Tulshipada area in Bhandup west by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

क्या ग्रीन टी पीना वाक़ई ख़तरनाक हो सकता है?

भूमिका राय बीबीसी संवाददाता | 23 नवंबर 2018

सेहत की चिंता बढ़ी और ‘ग्रीन-टी’ रिवॉल्यूशन आ गया.

Kerala drug regulator finds three drugs to be of substandard quality

9:03 AM – 11 Nov 2018 | ASPA Global

Kerala drug regulator finds three to be of quality

अब आपका मोबाइल फोन बताएगा, दूध कितना मिलावटी है?

21 Nov 2018 | Abhishek Anand

क्या दूध जो आप इस्तेमाल कर रहे हैं, मिलावटी है? आने वाले वक्त में इसका पता मोबाइल फोन के जरिए चल जाएगा. आईआईटी हैदराबाद के रिसर्चर स्मार्ट फोन पर आधारित एक ऐसा सेंसरिंग सिस्टम डेवलप कर रहे हैं जो मिल्क की शुद्धता की पहचान कर सकता है.

Amazon, Flipkart promise to stop sale of fake cosmetics

2 min read . 12 Nov 2018 Teena Thacker

The move comes after Drug Controller General of India served show cause notices to Amazon and Flipkart for selling ‘adulterated’ beauty products

छापेमारी में 16 पेटी नकली शराब बरामद

Publish Date:Sat, 10 Nov 2018 05:30 PM (IST)

कोतवाली के हथियानी गांव में शुक्रवार की रात आबकारी विभाग की टीम ने छापेमारी कर देशी शराब की दुकान से 16 पेटी नकली शराब बरामद किया। विभाग की ओर से अनुज्ञापी व दो अन्य व्यक्तियों के खिलाफ मुकदमा दर्ज कराया गया है।

Platform to fight counterfeits formed

By Carol Kasujja | Added 9th November 2018 05:54 PM

In August this year, a surveillance report by Uganda’s national standards agency for 2017 and 2018 indicated that more than 54% of goods on the market are fake.

Fake medicines production an international problem

Mech Dara | Publication date 06 November 2018 | 08:48 ICT

Prime Minister Hun Sen has expressed his concern about the abundance of fake and substandard medicines in the market, calling them a danger to public health and social safety.

SICILY KARIUKI: What Kenya is doing to fight fake drugs

By SICILY KARIUKI | Nov. 05, 2018, 12:15 am

Essential medicines save lives and improve health when they are of assured quality, available, affordable and promptly used. Quality is the key word here.

नकली पुदीन हरा के कारोबार का भंडाफोड़, एक गिरफ्तार

News18 Bihar | Updated: October 26, 2018, 7:11 AM IST

डाबर कंपनी के कर्मचारियों की निशानदेही पर बरामद नकली पुदीन हरा की खेप की कीमत 1 लाख से अधिक बताई जा रही है.

Madras high court stays online sale of medicines

Sureshkumar | TNN | Updated: Oct 31, 2018, 13:27 IST

Justice R Mahadevan passed the interim order on a plea moved by the Tamil Nadu Chemists & Druggists Association.

FOR FOOD'S SAKE!

October 29, 2018

What’s driving our food prices up in the region?

From pollution to price fixing scandals, Channel NewsAsia investigates in ‘For Food’s Sake!’ –

Fake Rolexes, makeup, pills among counterfeit items seized in New Orleans area

Updated Oct 23, 2018; Posted Oct 23, 2018

By Maria Clark, | The Times-Picayune

Fake Rolexes, counterfeit makeup and even bogus Viagra pills are among more than $1 million in items intercepted by federal and state law enforcement officers as part of a major anti-counterfeiting operation taking place across the New Orleans area. The effort will continue through the busy holiday shopping season.

Norway destroys 60,000 fake goods this year

September 24, 2018

So far this year, Norwegian customs have taken and destroyed over 60,000 counterfeit goods worth of more than 11 million kroner (1.35 million US dollars), public broadcaster NRK reported Saturday.

Untreatable infections caused two of three newborn deaths in Delhi hospital

Durgesh Nandan Jha | TNN | Updated: Jul 7, 2018, 03:12 IST

Doctors suggest the emergence of drug resistant pathogens and indiscriminate use of antibiotics are causing high mortalities due to infection.

हे भगवान ! राजस्थान में मरीज खा रहे हैं नकली दवाएं

By PUNEET SHARMA | Jul, 08 2018 09:30:13 (IST)

प्रदेश में मरीजों का इलाज नकली और अवमानक दवाओं से नहीं हो इसकी जिम्मेदारी औषधि नियंत्रक और ड्रग टेस्टिंग लैब की है।

How fake drugs cause the spread of untreatable TB in developing countries

By Olga Khazan | February 5, 2013

A study found that 16.6 percent of tuberculosis drugs in Africa, 10.1 percent in India and 3.9 percent in other middle-income countries

100 million Indians could be carrying the superbug NDM-1

TNN| Oct 09, 2011, 11.30 AM IST

The carriage rate of NDM-1 in India is between 100 and 200 million, which means that NDM-1 has become a very serious public health issue.

What is superbug NDM-1’s India connection?

Updated: Jan 16, 2017 16:32 IST | Sanchita Sharma  | Hindustan Times

After a 70-year-old American woman died of the superbug NDM-1 (New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase-1) in November last year, health officials recently revealed that her infection was resistant to all the available antibiotics, raising major concerns in the health community.

दूध की जगह पेंट डाल कर बनाते थे चाय, स्टेशन पर अवैध वेंडर्स गिरफ्तार

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Published on Aug 16, 2018

Operation Doodh: Watch how unhealthy is the milk we have everyday

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Published on Sep 6, 2016

पहले नकली माल रखवाया फिर औषधि विभाग को नकली माल की सूचना दी, तेज़ तर्रार औषधि टीम ने किया राज़फाश

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Fake Malaria Drugs Kill

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নকল কসমেটিক তৈরির অভিযোগে ৮ টি গোডাউন সিলগালা ১১ জনকে সাজা

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Published on Oct 8, 2018

Fake Cosmetics 01/02 (নকল প্রসাধনী তৈরি ও বেচাকেনা হচ্ছে রাজধানীতে) On News24

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Published on Oct 9, 2016

Current Connect 11 Eat Right Movement, 21 December 2018, KSG India

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Published on Dec 20, 2018

‘I am a victim of Kenya’s fake drugs crisis’ | BBC Africa Documentary

BBC News Africa
Published on Nov 15, 2018

Watch DNA with Sudhir Chaudhary, April 06, 2018

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Published on Apr 6, 2018

Fighting falsified medicines in Africa

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Published on Sep 18, 2018

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Published on Nov 15, 2016

Poison on the plate: Markets see rise in fake food products : Recent raids by the Commissionerate Police are a pointer to the volume of fake food items flooding the markets.

BHUBANESWAR: You eat with your eyes first, goes an adage. But going just by the looks of it may prove fatal considering the extent of spurious food that have made their way into the open markets, particularly from Cuttack. The recent raids by the Commissionerate Police are a pointer to the volume of fake and sub-standard …

IP waiver will not lead to increased production of COVID-19 vaccines: OPPI

Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) on Monday said waiving intellectual property rights will not lead to increased production of COVID-19 vaccines, as it is not the barrier to their adequate availability in India. A proposal moved by India and South Africa before the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to temporarily suspend trade-related aspects of …

LET US WAKE UP TO THE FAKE MENACE : About 25% of pharmaceuticals in India are fake, counterfeits and sub-standard.

Do you know that over two-third of milk and milk products available in the market do not meet the standards laid down by the authorities? India is known as the country of festivals. With our diverse culture and languages we celebrate numerous festivals, across states. We relish on sweets, and one important constituent of sweets …

80 Tea Garden Workers Dead After Consuming Spurious Liquor in Assam, Govt Orders Probe

Guwahati: Eighty tea garden workers died after consuming spurious liquor in Assam, with 39 deaths reported from Golaghat district alone. Several others have been admitted in a critical condition at the Jorhat Medical College Hospital and at the Golaghat civil hospital. The deaths come less than two weeks after more than 100 people died after drinking …

Winning the battle against falsified anti-malarials is helping consumers make better decisions – Kwasi Boateng, USP Ghana

Background: When Fight the Fakes heard the great news of how the percentage of falsified anti-malarials had dropped from 31% in 2009 to 1.5-2% in 2018 in Ghana, we wanted to know more. USP Ghana country manager, Mr Kwasi Boateng tells how the work of many hands had led to achieving this great result. The …

Secure Label Printer Launches Site that Educates and Supports International Brands

VeriTrace, Inc., a manufacturer of anti-counterfeit labels, tapes, seals and security documents, is excited to announce the launch of their new website. Designed to offer a user-friendly experience, the website includes improved navigation and industry-specific secure print solutions product pages. “Our new website highlights the wide variety of security technologies and the expertise we offer …

Fake malaria drug prompts warning to travellers

A medical case study, just published in medical journal The Lancet, serves as a stark warning of the dangers of buying medicines when travelling. Doctors in Spain report in the journal how they treated a 28-year-old woman who became dangerously ill as a result of being sold a counterfeit malaria drug whilst travelling in Equatorial …

An AI-Based ‘Tag’ By This Indian Startup May Just Revolutionise The Fake Products Market

Trotting that fake designer bag? Don’t brag, because this artificial intelligence-based ‘tag’ by an Indian startup may just call you out. Exploring AI in a unique way, this one-year-old startup has brought some interesting offerings to eliminate counterfeit products in the market, which is one of the major challenges companies face today. With offices in …

Govt extends ban on import of milk products from China for four months

The government has further extended the ban on import of milk and its products, including chocolates, from China for four months till April 23 next year, according to a notification of the commerce ministry issued Monday. “Prohibition on import of milk, milk products (including chocolates, chocolate products, candies, confectionary food preparations with milk or milk …

The health consequences of falsified medicines- A study of the published literature.

Abstract OBJECTIVES: To analyse and present the literature describing the health consequences of falsified medicines, focusing on mortality and morbidity, as well as the scale of the issue, the geographic extent, the medicines affected, and the harm caused at both the individual and population levels. METHODS: We searched for articles in PubMed, using pre-optimized keywords …