Spurious drugs detected

LAHORE: Drug inspectors of the health department inspected hundreds of medical stores/pharmacies in the city and collected 10,896 samples for laboratory analysis.

Around 60 out of a total 18,896 samples of drugs were detected spurious, official sources said on Friday.

It was disclosed that during the current crackdown, 845medical stores were sealed whereas 2,258 challans were sent to provincial as well as the district Quality Control Board.

It was informed that expired medicines were also recovered from 193 medical stores. The health department is also contemplating on a strategy to monitor the performance of drug inspectors. (APP)