The Directorate General of Drug Administration has withdrawn and destroyed date expired medicines from the market worth Tk 301.42 million of various drug companies from January to October this year by conducting mobile courts.
The drug administration has realised Tk 72.61 million as fines for marketing, preserving and selling expired, unregistered and adulterated medicines during this period.
A total of 1,437 cases have been filed by the mobile courts against the accused persons and 57 persons were given imprisonment in different span of time for preserving and selling date expired and adulterated medicines.
Director General of the Directorate General of Drug Administration, Major General Md Mahbubur Rahman, sent a report to the High Court in this regard complying with an earlier direction of the court.
According to the report, a total of 42 drug companies’ date expired medicines were found in the market. Among them, ACME Laboratories Limited has the most expired medicines in the market. The price of their destroyed medicines is Tk 56.48 million. Beximco Pharmaceuticals is following them by destroying expired medicines of Tk 54.20 million.
Incepta Pharmaceuticals is in third position by destroying expired medicines of Tk 34.63 million, Square Pharmaceuticals placed the fourth position by destroying expired medicines of Tk 29.68 million and Opsonin Pharmaceuticals is in fifth position by destroying medicines of Tk 27.50 million among the 42 companies.
The report was placed in the High Court bench of Justice Md Khasruzzaman and Justice Md Mahmud Hassan Talukder on Monday.
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