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167 drug samples flagged ‘not of standard quality’ in December 2025

167 drug samples flagged ‘not of standard quality’ in December 2025
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NEW DELHI, Jan 2 (PTI): The central drugs laboratories found 74 drug samples manufactured by various firms to be “not of standard quality (NSQ)” in its monthly drug alert for December, a health ministry statement said.

Additionally, the state drug testing laboratories have identified 93 drug samples as NSQ, they said.

As per routine regulatory surveillance activity, the list of Not of Standard Quality (NSQ) and Spurious drugs is put up on the CDSCO portal on a monthly basis.