The Telangana Standards Authority for Food and Essential Drugs (TG SAFE) on Wednesday served show cause notices to 125 medical shops over violations related to sale of habit-forming drugs in CURE region and other districts in the state.
The notices follow raids by TG-SAFE drugs wing, along with enforcement wing police personnel, at medical shops in Medchal and Serilingampally zones, and in various districts across the state.
The raids focused on indiscriminate sale of habit-forming drugs, including Tramadol, Alprazolam, Nitrazepam, Tapentadol and Zolpidem tablets, Codeine-containing cough syrups and Pregabalin containing formulations. The teams conducted decoy operations and test purchases from medical shops to verify the indiscriminate sale of such drugs by medical shops.
The officials detected several violations, including the sale of habit-forming drugs without a prescription from a registered medical practitioner, failure to maintain prescription drug registers and Schedule H1 drug registers, and dispensing of prescription drugs in the absence of a registered pharmacist.
Sale of drugs without issuing bills, non-maintenance and failure to produce sales bills, failure to produce purchase bills, irregularities in maintaining copies of sales and purchase bills were among other violations.
Show cause notices were issued for initiating departmental action, including suspension or cancellation of drug licences, the TG-SAFE said.
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