Vadodara: Probe against pharma firm for ‘illegal’ manufacture of anti-parasitic drug

FDCA Commissioner Dr H G Koshia further said that about 20 drums of about 50 kg of the drug was seized from the premises of M/s Pharma Inter Chemi, located in Nandesari GIDC, Vadodara.

“A sample has been collected for tests while the rest has been confiscated. During the raid, the firm’s partners Balvant V Retarkar and Mayank Retarkar– who are father and son– confessed that they started illegal manufacturing of the drug without obtaining a license or undergoing the mandatory testing and sold the same under the chemical name to M/s Adani Pharma Chem in Rajkot, M/s Ascent Pharma, Veraval, Rajkot, M/s Prism Industries, Khambhat, Anand, M/s Kaival Chemical Pvt. Ltd., Umraya, Padra, Vadodara, M/s Triumph Intercam, Hyderabad, Telangana, and M/s Garda Chemicals, Dombivali, Maharashtra,” he said.

Koshia added, “We have initiated a strict legal action against the manufacturers and for selling Oxyclozanide API bulk drugs without license in violation of Section 13 (c) of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, which is a punishable criminal offence.”