The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has published two lists of products declared as Not of Standard Quality (NSQ) and Spurious for January 2024. These two lists were published on February 28, 2024.
These lists are as follows:
- Dugs analyzed by CDSCO/ central laboratories, and
- Drugs that have been analyzed by state laboratories
Not of Standard Quality (NSQ) drugs refer to drugs that fail to meet quality standards or specifications. The term ‘standards of quality’ is defined in the Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940, to mean that the drug complies with the standards set out in the Second Schedule of the said Act.
Central Laboratories NSQ List of drugs/ products for January– 2025
The NSQ drug list for central CDSCO laboratories specifies a total of 52 drugs that were detected to be deficient.
Out of theses 52 NSQ drugs from CDSCO/Central Laboratories, 23 were reported by Central Drug Laboratory (CDL), Kolkata; 8 were reported by Regional Drugs Testing Laboratory (RDTL), Chandigarh; 13 were reported by RDTL, Guwahati; 6 were reported by Central Drugs Testing Laboratory (CDTL), Mumbai; 1 was reported by Central Drugs Testing Laboratory (CDTL), Indore; and 1 was reported by Central Drugs Testing Laboratory (CDTL), Hyderabad.
State Laboratories NSQ List of drugs/ products for January – 2025
The NSQ drug list specifies a total of 93 drugs that were detected to be deficient by the state laboratories.
Out of these 93 drugs, 1 was reported by Drug Testing Laboratory Srinagar (J&K); 15 were reported by State Lab, Drugs Control Laboratory, Telangana; 13 by State lab (Puducherry); 7 was reported by King Institute of Preventive Medicine & Research, Guindy, Chennai-32; 14 was reported by Drugs Testing Laboratory, Madurai-19; 17 were reported by Drugs Testing Laboratory, Chennai-6, 17 was reported by Karnataka; 2 were reported by State Drugs Testing Laboratory, Kolkata, West Bengal and 13 were reported by Drugs Testing Laboratory Thiruvananthapuram.
It is pertinent to note that CDSCO did not receive NSQ data as per Format & in EXCEL SHEET State Drugs Licensing Authorities of Jammu Kashmir, Chennai, West Bengal, Puducherry, Telangana, Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), Bangalore. Further NSQ data was received from Tripura, Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh as NIL. However, data was not received as per format in Excel Sheet from Jharkhand (PDF Format), Delhi (PDF Format) Goa (PDF format) and Maharashtra (PDF Format) for the Month of January, 2025 as per DCG (I) Circular dated 09.02.2024.
However, the State Drugs Licensing Authorities of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, 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 January, 2025 as per DCG (I) Circular dated 09.02.2024.
