Hyderabad: After busting multiple gangs supplying spurious drugs including commonly used medicines for hypertension, high cholesterol, pain relief and antibiotics, the state Drugs Control Administration (DCA) has sounded an alert asking the general public to be cautious while purchasing drugs. Recently, even fake cancer drugs were found.
The advisory listed out ways to identify a spurious drug including comparing it with previously used product as most of these fake drugs are ‘almost visually identical’.
“The Drugs Control Administration Telangana has seized fake anti-cancer drugs at a godown in Machabollaram in December last year. DCA Telangana also busted counterfeit drug rackets in Hyderabad entering the state from Kashipur in Uttarakhand and Ghaziabad through courier in December last year and January,” the DCA said.
