Re:50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India s...
by reaperducer on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @04:56PM
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No need to go way back ten years. A recall in the US a couple of weeks ago was because of eye drops made in India.
That said, India does produce massive amounts of pharma for export around the world. Just read the labels on the boxes in the drug stores.
During a visit to a facility of leading Indian drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd last year, U.S. inspectors found that a black fiber embedded in a tablet may have been a hair from an employee’s arm, according to documents seen by Reuters. ....
The Mohali plant, in the northern state of Punjab, had not been making U.S. exports since last November, when it voluntarily recalled its generic version of cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor in the United States due to the potential presence of glass particles in certain batches.
Here's another case from last year:
A parliamentary committee in Gambia said on Tuesday that India-based drug maker Maiden Pharmaceuticals Ltd was responsible for the deaths of at least 70 children from acute kidney injury and called on the government to pursue legal action.
According to a WHO report, "labs contracted by it in Ghana and Switzerland found excess levels of ethyleneglycol and diethyleneglycol contaminants in the Maiden syrups."
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/gambia-lawmakers-say-ma...
Note that the plant cited in the 2013 case was majority owned by a Japanese pharmaceutical company. They still couldn't get QC right.