India, Aug. 22 -- New Delhi The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has listed at least 143 drugs as not of standard quality (NSQ) and eight spurious samples in July, after both central and state testing laboratories across the country flagged them, according to the national drugs regulator's alert issued on Thursday.

Data accessed by HT for the year so far showed that at least 704 samples were labelled as NSQ by the national drugs regulator while 11 samples were found to be spurious.

NSQ drugs are those that fail to meet the quality standards or specifications, including those pertaining to labelling, dissolution, weight uniformity, and sterility.

According to a release issued by CDSCO, of the 143 samples that failed t...