The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has published two lists of drugs declared as Not of Standard Quality (NSQ) for July 2024. One list comprises of drugs that have been analyzed by state laboratories and the second list enumerates drugs analyzed by CDSCO/ central laboratories. Both these lists were published on August 22, 2024.
Central Laboratories NSQ List of drugs/ medical device/ cosmetics for July – 2024
The NSQ drug list for central CDSCO laboratories specifies a total of 57 drugs that were detected to be deficient.
Out of the 57 NSQ drugs from CDSCO/Central Laboratories, 33 were reported by Central Drug Laboratory (CDL), Kolkata; 4 were reported by Regional Drugs Testing Laboratory (RDTL), Chandigarh; 13 were reported by RDTL, Guwahati; 5 were reported by Central Drugs Testing Laboratory (CDTL), Mumbai and 2 were reported by CDTL, Hyderabad.
State Laboratories NSQ List of drugs/ medical device/ cosmetics for July – 2024
The NSQ drug list specifies a total of 13 drugs that were detected to be deficient by the state laboratories. All of these 13 drugs were declared to be not of standard quality.
Out of these 13 drugs, 12 were reported by Drugs Testing Laboratory Thiruvananthapuram and 1 was reported by Jammu and Kashmir.
It is pertinent to note that CDSCO did not receive NSQ data as per Format & in EXCEL SHEET from State Drugs Licensing Authorities of Karnataka and Jharkhand for the Month of July, 2024. Both these states sent their data in a PDF format.
However, the State Drugs Licensing Authorities of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Rajasthan, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Telangana, Delhi, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Andaman & Nicobar, Dadar and Nagar Haveli; Daman and Diu, Lakshadweep have not submitted any data in respect of the Not of Standard Quality (NSQ) Alert for the Month of July, 2024.
