Hyderabad, March 5 -- The Drug Control Administration asked retail medical shops and pharmacies to mandatorily verify the genuineness of the drug license held by the wholesaler or distributor (located in Telangana) on the ODLS Portal of the Drugs Control Administration, Telangana, before purchasing medicines.

The DCA directed wholesalers and dealers to mandatorily verify the genuineness of the drug license held by a retail medical shop or pharmacy on the ODLS Portal of the Drugs Control Administration, Telangana, before supplying medicines.

V B Kamalasan Reddy, DG of Drug Control Administration, said that as per the modus operandi of offenders involved in spurious or counterfeit medicines and offences related to habit-forming drugs, fak...