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The Telangana Drugs Control Administration (DCA) made 244 seizures for violations of assorted laws enforced by the section successful 2025 and detected 84 sub-standard drugs circulating successful the market, with the full worth of seized medicines pegged astatine ₹1.39 crore. The figures were revealed successful the enforcement agency’s yearly study 2025, released connected Wednesday.
During 2025, the DCA conducted 28,816 inspections crossed the State, detecting violations successful 5,278 cases. This marked a marginal summation successful inspections compared to 2024, erstwhile 25,253 inspections were carried retired and violations were recovered successful 4,102 cases.
In 2024, the DCA carried retired 573 seizures, a fig that was much than 10 times the 56 seizures reported successful 2023. The full worth of drugs seized successful 2024 stood astatine ₹7.46 crore, including spurious drugs worthy ₹2.36 crore.
Misleading advertisements accounted for the highest fig of seizures successful 2025, with 140 cases registered nether this category. This was followed by 38 cases involving quacks and unauthorised aesculapian practitioners engaged successful unlicensed stocking and merchantability of drugs, and 36 cases related to unlicensed aesculapian shops, godowns, and amerciable stocking and merchantability of medicines.
The bureau besides booked 9 cases of drugs illegally manufactured and sold arsenic nutrient products oregon nutraceuticals, six cases linked to spurious cause rackets, 4 cases of unlicensed cause manufacturing and 2 cases of terms violations. Another 9 cases pertained to expired drugs, doc samples and different related offences.
As portion of its surveillance and prime power measures, the DCA analysed 4,801 cause samples successful 2025, of which 84 were recovered to beryllium Not of Standard Quality (NSQ). According to the report, enactment has been initiated against the manufacturers nether the Drugs and Cosmetics Act. In comparison, the bureau had analysed 3,902 samples successful 2024 and detected 130 NSQ drugs.
The study besides highlighted a important enforcement milestone, with the DCA initiating stringent ineligible enactment against those progressive successful spurious cause offences. Four dealers were arrested during the twelvemonth successful transportation with spurious cause cases. These arrests, carried retired for the archetypal clip successful the past of DCA Telangana, were described arsenic a beardown awesome of zero tolerance towards the manufacturing, organisation and merchantability of spurious medicines.
Among the large operations undertaken successful 2025 was a associated crackdown connected a psychotropic cause racket successful Hyderabad. In this operation, officials seized 1.2 lakh Alprazolam tablets worthy ₹4.32 lakh from an unlicensed residential premises astatine Moosarambagh.
