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LAHORE, Feb 3: Three more local and foreign laboratories have declared the Isotab-20 drug substandard with adulteration of pyrimethamine.
The reports were issued by the Drug Testing Laboratory, the government of Punjab; the Federal Drug Testing Laboratory and the Interek Expert Services, Switzerland.
Earlier, the Isotab drug was declared spurious in a report issued by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), London.
According to a source, the DTL, Punjab, and the Federal Drug Testing Laboratory have traced 53mg and 56mg pyrimethamine, respectively, while Intertek Expert Services, Switzerland, declared it hazardous for human life.
Quoting the Switzerland report, a spokesman for the Health Department said a large quantity of anti-malarial drug pyrimethamine was found in Isotab.—Staff Reporter
Dear Jamal, you WERE the user of compnay products, but I personally know the Standards they maintain, Its was below level company, the Director Technical Operations was a corrupt man having bad reputation in Pharma Industry.
I am sure they removed the record from the hospital
My question would be when there is no record of receiving that batch and when the company has a different batch No supplied to the hospital how can Punjab Government send a non-registered batch for testing and seal the company on this basis.
Efroze Pharma has a clean record for the past 35 years, I as a user of their medicine know that their products of the highest quality and standard.
Probe teams are facing difficulties due to missing purchase record of injurious PIC drug Isotab.
According to the sources, Pakistan Institute of Cardiology administration gave order of 2 million Isotab tablets to Efroze Pharma in September 2011. As per record of PIC, the delivery of 2 million tablets was shown in two batches i.e. J092 and J095 from which there were received 1.05 million tablets of batch J092 and 0.95 million tablets of batch J095.
Surprisingly, the tablets recovered from the patients, affected from contaminated medicines, were of batch J093 but there is no record of this batche in the PIC neither any lab test has been conducted of this batch.
The tablets sent by the Punjab government for foreign test were also from batch J093 but there was no stamp of hospital on it.
According to sources investigation teams are facing difficulties due to missing record of batch J093