Counterfeit and substandard drugs in India may be smaller problem than claimed, say government findings

Only a very small fraction (0.05%) of drugs made in India and tested by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation between 2009 and 2012 were “spurious” (counterfeit) or substandard, government data have shown.

In 2009 the drugs agency published its Report on Countrywide Survey for Spurious Drugs concerning what it believed were mostly unverified and sensational reports that between 10% and 25% of Indian drugs were “spurious.”1 Spurious drugs are defined as those that are manufactured under another drug name or that wrongly claim to be …