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Drug Regulations Fail Reality Tests

July 18, 2008
India boasts of over 80 US FDA-approved plants, the largest number in any country other than the US. But even as these plants are said to be in compliance with the exacting standards set by the US FDA, there is absolutely no guarantee that all of India’s over 20,000 pharmaceutical manufacturing units relentlessly employ the good manufacturing practices (GMP), as revised by India’s drug regulator some three years ago.
The Economic Times