New Delhi, July 24: Watch out! The next time you buy your baby a cough syrup or get yourself any medication, make sure to get a proper bill else you could fall prey to the multi-crore clandestine business of spurious, misbranded and adulterated drugs.
While the top players of the over Rs 85,000 crore pharmaceutical business are up in arms over what they call rampant spread of counterfeit drugs (allegedly 20 to 25 per cent of total pharma sales) in the country, enforcement agencies and some pharma associations say the situation is not that alarming.
But, they acknowledged that there are areas, which have slowly gained the dubious distinction of being a major source point for such drugs.
–PTI