Combiflam, Cetrizine, D-Cold, 57 others are of sub-standard quality: CDSCO

Popular drugs like D-Cold Total, Cetrizine, Combiflam, Panza-40 tablets, Ibuprofen, and antibiotics with ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, Amoxycillin, Ciprofloxacin have tested as sub-standard by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO).

According to a ‘Drug Alert for the Month of March’ uploaded by CDSCO, about 60 medicines tested in various zonal offices of the agency have been found to be ‘Not of Standard Quality/ Spurious/ Adulterated/ Misbranded’.

According to the CDSCO report, Combiflam was sub-standard because of ‘disintegration’, Ciprofloxacin Tablets IP 250mg due to ‘assay’, D Cold Total due to ‘disintegration’, Panza-40 Tablets due to ‘dissolution’, and so on.

The names of all the 60 drugs, including the details of the batch number, the date of manufacture, the date of expiry, and manufactured by, have been mentioned in the drug alert report for March on the CDSCO’s website.