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The US health regulator has pulled up Jagsonpal Pharmaceuticals for significant manufacturing lapses at its Rajasthan-based active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) plant. In a warning letter issued to the company's Managing Director Manish Gupta, the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) noted that the correspondence summarizes significant deviations from Current Good Manufacturing Practice for APIs. The US health regulator stated that it inspected the company's Bhiwadi- based plant in Rajasthan on March 20, March 27, and April 3, 2024. "This warning letter summarises significant deviations from Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) for APIs. Because the methods, facilities, or controls for manufacturing, processing, packing, or holding do not conform to CGMP, your API is adulterated," the USFDA stated in the warning letter. A warning letter issued by the USFDA usually identifies the violation, such as poor manufacturing practices, problems with claims for what a product ca
Three entities, including two promoters of Onesource Specialty Pharma, on Friday divested a 6.8 per cent stake in the company for Rs 1,202 crore through open market transactions. Tenshi Pharmaceuticals (Promoter) and Pronomz Ventures LLP (Promoter Group) and Medella Holdings Pte Ltd were the entities who have offloaded 77.66 lakh shares or 6.8 per cent stake in Bengaluru-based Onesource Specialty Pharma, as per the bulk deal data available on the NSE. The shares were disposed of in the price range of Rs 1,545-1,552.90 apiece, taking the combined value to Rs 1,202.23 crore. The promoters of the company divested a 3.4 per cent stake in the firm. After the latest transaction, the combined shareholding of promoter holding in Onesource Specialty Pharma has come down to 34.36 per cent from 37.77 per cent and Medella Holdings stake has declined to 0.8 per cent from 4.17 per cent. Meanwhile, Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund and CPT Research & Mgmt Co T/A CPT World Investors acquired 21.95 lakh .
The Competition Commission on Tuesday cleared the proposed amalgamation of nine entities with pharmaceutical firm Sequent Scientific Ltd (SSL). "The proposed combination involves a series of inter-connected steps carried out for the amalgamation of SRL, Viyash, Symed, Appcure, Vindhya Pharma, Vandana, Vindhya Organics, Geninn and SV Labs with SSL as the ultimate surviving entity," CCI (Competition Commission of India) said in a release. SSL offers active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), finished dosage formulations, and analytical services for the animal health sector. Sequent Research Ltd (SRL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SSL, is a contract research organisation. Viyash is a pharmaceutical company and through its subsidiaries is primarily engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of APIs and intermediates for human healthcare in India. Symed Labs, Appcure Labs, Vindhya Pharma (India) and Vandana Life Sciences are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Viyash while S V Labs is a
Pharma major Eli Lilly and Company on Thursday said it plans to establish a new global capability centre in Hyderabad and hire over 1,000 people to strengthen its digital strategy and service delivery. The Hyderabad global capability centre (GCC) will be known as Lilly Capability Centre India (LCCI) Hyderabad and will initially focus on expanding Lilly's capabilities in automation, artificial intelligence, software product engineering and cloud computing to deliver advanced technology solutions that meet the evolving needs of Lilly's business worldwide, the Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) said in a statement. Lilly will be recruiting more than 1,000 highly-skilled team members to strengthen the company's digital strategy and service delivery, it added. The company further said it plans to employ around 1,000 to 1,500 highly-skilled professionals including technology engineers and data scientists. Recruitment for the new site is underway, and the centre is expected to be operational b
Piramal Pharma on Friday said it will pay USD 407,400 to US-based VetDC, Inc to settle a dispute over rejected batches of a product. Piramal Pharma Solutions Inc, a unit of the company, and VetDC, Inc have entered into a settlement agreement for an amount of USD 407,400, the drug maker said in a regulatory filing. VetDC had claimed damages on account of rejection of certain batches of product manufactured and supplied by Piramal Pharma Solutions Inc. "While the company continues to believe that its legal stand is appropriate against claims made by VetDC and maintains that it has defence to VetDC's claims of liabilities and damages, in order to solely avoid continued legal costs and uncertainties of protracted litigation, the Company and VetDC have both decided to settle," Piramal Pharma said. The company shall have no responsibility for any other costs beyond the amount of USD 407,400, it added. "This settlement will not have a significant impact on the financial position of the .