Kanpur: Two medical stores in front of the city' s Lala Lajpat Rai hospital were found to be selling fake medicine after samples checked at the government's laboratory in the state capital Lucknow. The Food Safety and Drug Administration department cancelled the license of both the stores. This action was taken following a raid by a team of drug inspectors formed under the assistant drug commissioner.
According to the Drug Inspector, Sandesh Mauraya the samples of Udilive 300 mg tablet with batch no UDB 8014 were taken in the raid conducted on two medical stores near LLR hospital and four stockists at Birhana Road on July 27, this year. The seized samples were tested at Lucknow lab where the results prompted the department to take strict action.
In the name of a healthcare company, the fake medicines were being sold at the medical stores. The test report revealed that the salt quantity in the tablet was zero. There was found chalk in it. The report has been sought from the company's name printed on the tablet foil.
In the meantime, the medical store owners failed to produce evidences in regard to the seller. One store owner failed to present the answer while another store owner showed a bill indicating of medicine purchased from a medical store at Malwa in Fatehpur. But this bill was not issued in the name of the owner from there. The bill that was available was issued in the name of a medical store existing at a different place.
The Abbott company supplies the tablets on a large scale in Uttar Pradesh. A sudden fall in the sale of the medicine led the company's official to approach the state drug commissioner. He apprised him of fake medicine with the name of Udiliv 300 mg is doing sale in the market. Therefore a massive raid was initiated at several districts. Some test reports are still awaited. A report has been sought from the manufacturer at Goa.
