Mumbai: FDA raids shop in Mulund selling fake medicine claiming to "cure" Coronavirus

Amid dely vel coronavirus outbreak, Maharashtra Food and Drug ministration and Mumbai police on Monday night raided a shop in Mulund for vertising one of its products as an effective measure to cure virus. One person was also arrested by officials during raid. medicines are said to be me of mud and makers claimed it could cure Coronavirus. Similar such raids have been conducted on fake sanitizers as well by FDA.

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Raid on fake sanitizers

Maharashtra Food and Drug ministration officials raided a firm in Aurangab and caught staff changing expiry date labels on hand sanitiser bottles to profit from vel coronavirus outbreak in state, a senior official said on Monday.

staff of Eurolife Healthcare in Aurangab's Waluj industrial area were replacing '2020' on expiry date label with '2021', FDA Joint Commissioner Sanjay Kale told PTI.

"Prices were also being changed. raid started on Sunday evening and went on till midnight. Sanitiser stock worth Rs 50 lakh has been seized. y were manufactured in a factory in Gujarat and were being marketed by Eurolife Healthcare in Aurangab," Kale said.

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Coronavirus outbreak

On March 17, total number of positive cases in India has soared to over 130, including 17 foreign nationals. maximum cases of virus have been reported in Maharashtra and Kerala. A third death has been reported in India on Tuesday in Mumbai's Kasturba Hospital. Earlier, two deaths were reported in Kalaburgi and West Delhi. 

Centre has “strongly vised” Indians to avoid all n-essential travel abro. government is also monitoring all suspected cases and has issued preventive visories. Earlier on Saturday, Central government decided to treat dely virus as a "tified disaster", and has since issued even more visories and travel restrictions.

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COVID-19 affected over 140 countries

First detected in Wuhan in December 2019, COVID-19- vel Coronavirus has affected nearly 148 countries in world. Presently, re are around 182,750 confirmed cases of COVID-19 which has led to death of around 7,174 people. As re is vaccine or specific antiviral medicine to treat COVID-19 yet, countries have been grappling with all possible mechanisms to contain its scope. So far, China, South Korea, Italy, and Iran have witnessed most number of confirmed cases of vel Coronavirus.

Eurolife denies allegations of any wrongdoing

Eurolife Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., a leing Indian specialty pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and distribution company, has issued clarifications denying reports, which appeared in a section of media, that some of its products were found to have passed expiry dates and that product pricing was changed for whole range recently.
Highlighting issue, Mr. Virender Dhar, Chief Marketing Officer, Eurolife Healthcare,  said, "Contrary to reports, prices of many of  Eurolife’s products were reduced in view of Corona Virus and ne of bottles in market is past its expiry date. Our hand sanitizer was introduced by company in 2018 and we have in fact reduced its price from Rs. 250 to Rs.190/- for 100 ml. bottle. However, decision to change MRP for certain products was taken in February 2020 based on market intelligence to rationalize it as all disinfected product brands in market h higher MRP than us. Given this situation, only three of our products' MRP was changed and rest all remained unchanged.”
 “We would also like to emphasize that, in view of Coronavirus breakout, we have brought down our ASP price (Prices to stockiest) by 40-45%, " ded Mr. Dhar. 
On issue of shelf life, Mr. Dhar maintains, “All our sanitizer products have a shelf life as per established guidelines from appropriate authorities. We appreciate process put by investigation ncies and we are fully cooperating with m.

(With PTI inputs)

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