The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) released a list of 53 drugs which failed the quality test two weeks ago. Following up on that the regulator also released the list of pharmaceutical manufacturing units spread across 8 states where these raids were conducted.

Some of the medicines that were found to be of substand quality including Paracetamol, Vitamin supplements, High- Blood Pressure medicines, common antibiotics and the list continues. For the first time that the authorities have cracked down on many units.

To answer some of these questions we spoke to Dinesh Thakur, Public Health Activist & Founder, at Thakur Foundation and Prosenjit Datta, a senior journalist