DRAP Bans Illegal Medicines Recalls Familia Injection

DRAP Bans Illegal Medicines Recalls Familia Injection

As per details, the development came after the revelation of imported illegal medicines and surgical instruments being used in hospitals.

Sources revealed that DRAP has sent letters to all four provinces, Azad Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan, instructing them to take action against those selling, using, or importing unauthorized medical products.

The regulatory body has also ordered its field force to conduct effective surveillance of the medicine market and investigate the supply chain of illegal products.

Familia DRAP recalls batch of popular birth control drug

Last week, the Drug Regulatory Authority banned the sale and use of the defective batch of Familia injection, a birth control medication, after it was found to be substandard.

The injection, manufactured by a private pharmaceutical in Karachi, was being sold in Karachi.

The decision came after the Central Drug Testing Laboratory declared batch No. 83 of Familia injection as substandard. The DRAP issued a product recall alert, warning that using the non-standard injection can be harmful to health and potentially cause blood infections.