The truth pill : (Record no. 3053165)

MARC details
000 -LEADER
fixed length control field 03057nam a22002177a 4500
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field JGU
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20240502020009.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 221130b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789392099175
Qualifying information hbk.
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency JGU
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Thakur, Dinesh S.,
9 (RLIN) 1637543
Relator term author
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The truth pill :
Remainder of title the myth of drug regulation in India /
Statement of responsibility, etc Dinesh S. Thakur and Prashant Reddy T.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New Delhi :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Simon & Schuster,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2022.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "Since 2004, when the fraud at Ranbaxy, the largest Indian pharmaceutical company at the time first came to light, the Indian pharmaceutical industry and clinical research organizations have been rocked by a series of scandals after investigations by American and European drug regulators. While the West has responded to concerns about quality of “Made in India” medicine by blocking exports from many Indian pharmaceutical companies, the Indian government responded not with regulatory reform but conspiracy theories about “vested interests” working against India. More worryingly, the Indian state has also turned a blind eye to a far more serious quality crisis in its domestic pharmaceutical market. At times, these quality issues manifest themselves in deaths of Indian citizens as happened in early 2020 when 11 children died in Jammu because of adulterated cough syrup. On other occasions, a dodgy drug approval process has led to the Indian regulator approving sales of drugs that have never been approved by regulators in the developed markets. The result is not just poor health outcomes but outsize profits for pharmaceutical companies manufacturing medicines that have never been validated through scientifically rigorous clinical trials for therapeutic evidence. These twin crises, in both the domestic and export markets is because India has either outdated regulations or no regulations in some areas. Even the outdated regulations are enforced with gloves by drug inspectors and judicial magistrates who are ready to forgive even those whose drugs are found to contain barely any active ingredient or dangerously high levels of bacterial endotoxins. In a race for growth of the pharmaceutical industry, the Indian state has sacrificed scientific rigour and ignored the basic principles of public health. Given India’s position as the pharmacy of the developing world, the failure of the Indian state is a problem for not just India but most of the developing world. This timely, important and compelling book based on deep research, questions and analyzes the actions of the institutions that are responsible for the safety and efficacy of the Indian drug supply in the context of the historical evolution of the Drugs Act 1940 from pre-Independence India to the present day. The future of Indian public health lies in responding to the issues raised in this book."--<br/><br/>
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element India
Topical term following geographic name as entry element Drugs--Safety regulations
9 (RLIN) 1637865
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Reddy T, Prashant,
Relator term author
9 (RLIN) 37137
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Koha item type Home library Current library Shelving location Full call number Barcode Total Checkouts Total Renewals Date last seen Date checked out
    Dewey Decimal Classification     General Books Print OPJGU Sonepat- Campus OPJGU Sonepat- Campus Main Library 344.540423 TH-T 147479 1 1 23/12/2024 21/01/2023
    Dewey Decimal Classification     General Books Print OPJGU Sonepat- Campus OPJGU Sonepat- Campus Main Library 344.540423 TH-T 150479 3 2 12/11/2024 06/08/2024

O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat-Narela Road, Sonepat, Haryana (India) - 131001

Send your feedback to glus@jgu.edu.in

Implemented & Customized by: BestBookBuddies   |   Maintained by: Global Library