At the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance's (IPA) 9th Global Pharmaceutical Quality Summit, held in Mumbai in 2024, India's Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) Drugs Controller General, Rajeev Raghuvanshi spoke about the efforts to strengthen quality oversight in India. He addressed: regulatory non-compliance and quality issues capacity building projects in the...
India Supplies 47% of Generic Prescriptions to the U.S.
Indian pharmaceutical companies play a vital role in supplying affordable generic medicines to the U.S. market. According to a recent report by the IQVIA Institute, Indian companies accounted for 47% of all generic prescriptions used by U.S. patients in 2022, making them the clear leader ahead of the U.S. (30%),...
India Trade Group Working with Western regulators to Improve Drug QA
India exports $15 billion worth of pharmaceuticals, and is considered the largest generic producer to the world, so improving its quality control has huge ramifications for the country's revenues. Gerald Heddell, director of the U.K.'s Inspection, Enforcement and Standards, Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, said in a recent Business Standard report that Britain...