Overview
- Officials conducted 28,816 inspections across Telangana in 2025, detecting violations in 5,278 cases.
- Laboratories analysed 4,801 samples, identifying 84 Not of Standard Quality medicines compared with 130 in 2024.
- Seized medicines were valued at ₹1.39 crore, with misleading advertisements leading 140 cases, followed by actions against quacks and unlicensed shops.
- Enforcement escalated with four arrests in spurious-drug cases for the first time in the agency’s history and 217 convictions under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act.
- A joint operation in Hyderabad seized 1.2 lakh Alprazolam tablets at Moosarambagh, as probes tracked several consignments to interstate networks.