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'Local chemist store found selling expired medicines'
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The central Mumbai district consumer forum said on Tuesday directed a city medical store to pay a sum of Rs. 30,000 to a Sion resident for having sold him an ‘expired’ strip of tablets.
Selling strips of medicines that are past their expiration date is illegal, the central Mumbai district consumer forum said on Tuesday, directing a city medical store to pay a sum of Rs. 30,000 to a Sion resident for having sold him an ‘expired’ strip of tablets. The consumer forum held the medical store Dial for Health India Limited guilty of deficiency in service, for selling the medicines to Chetan D’souza, the complainant.
According to the complaint lodged by D’souza, he had purchased a strip of Cefdiel and Becozinc capsules from the medical store in Sion (East) on July 13, 2012, after being prescribed the drugs by his doctor. On the evening of July 14, he started feeling uneasy, and vomited twice.
The next day, before consuming the tablets, he noticed that the expiry date of the Cefdiel capsules was in June 2012. He then carefully checked the batch number on the strip, and found that it differed from the one that had been entered in the invoice issued by the medical store. D’souza then complained to the medical store owner, as well as the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA), and eventually approached the consumer forum, seeking a compensation of Rs. 1 lakh.
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