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Notices slapped on 125 medical shops for drug sale violations
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As part of an ongoing special enforcement drive in the CURE region to curb the illegal sale and diversion of habit-forming drugs, TG SAFE officials conducted raids on medical shops across the Medchal and Serilingampally zones
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Notices slapped on 125 medical shops for drug sale violations
Hyderabad: The Telangana Standards Authority for Food and Essential Drugs (TG SAFE) – Drugs Wing on Wednesday served show-cause notices on 125 medical shops in Medchal and Serilingampally for violating rules and regulations. Appropriate action, including suspension of drug licences, will be initiated against the establishments concerned. TG SAFE officials said action would be taken in accordance with the provisions of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940.
As part of an ongoing special enforcement drive in the CURE region to curb the illegal sale and diversion of habit-forming drugs, TG SAFE officials conducted raids on medical shops across the Medchal and Serilingampally zones. Similar raids were also carried out by the Drugs Wing in various districts across Telangana as part of the drive.
The raids were conducted at several retail medical shops in vulnerable areas of the CURE region, focusing on the illegal sale of habit-forming drugs, including Tramadol tablets, Alprazolam tablets, Nitrazepam tablets, codeine-containing cough syrups, Tapentadol tablets, Pregabalin-containing formulations and Zolpidem tablets.
Officials detected several violations, including the indiscriminate sale of habit-forming drugs without prescriptions from Registered Medical Practitioners; failure to maintain prescription drug registers and Schedule H1 drug registers; dispensing prescription drugs in the absence of a Registered Pharmacist; sale of medicines without issuing bills; failure to maintain or produce sales bills and produce purchase bills; irregularities in maintaining copies of sales and purchase bills; and other violations of the Drugs Rules.
