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Kerala DC unearth huge stocks of banned veterinary drugs from agency in Thiruvananthapuram
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Our Bureau, Chennai
October 26 , 2016
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Further to the raid conducted last month in a cattle feed selling store
in a village in Thiruvananthapuram district, the enforcement officials
at the office of the Assistant Drugs Controller at Thiruvananthapuram
unearthed huge stocks of banned veterinary medicines from an agency
operating in a village in the district.
According to the ADC, the
veterinary drug agent was selling the banned products in large-scale to
the milk farmers and cattle growers in the area. The agent was selling
the medicines as feed supplement.
P.K. Sreekumar, the ADC at
Thiruvananthapuram while speaking to Pharmabiz said huge stocks of feed
supplements and poultry sold by GR Agency at Kallambalam were seized
from the shop. The seized products valued at Rs.50,000. The banned medicines were manufactured by a Bangalore based company.
The inspecting officers registered cases against the manufacturing company and local distributor.
The
seized medicines, Ceprostin Plus 500ml and Ceprostin Plus 100ml
contains floucoquinolin group of antibiotics, enrofloxacin and
ciprofloxacin in addition to Colistin which are coming under the list of
antibiotics and other pharmacologically active substances banned for
use in the shrimp culture by the Coastal Aquaculture Authority, ministry
of agriculture, government of India. The irrational use of these
antibiotics results in the development of human pathogens, resistant to
such drugs which will pose serious threat to human beings.
The
case was registered as per the provisions of D&C Act which warrants
an imprisonment for 5 years and fine. The seized items were produced
before Judicial First Class Magistrate Court at Attingal.
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