Drug Standardization

NSQ Drug

• If it is sold, or offered or exhibited for sale, under a name which belongs to another drug.
• If it is an imitation of, or is a substitute for, another drug or resembles another drug in a manner likely to deceive, or bears upon it or upon its label or container the name of another drug, unless it is plainly and conspicuously marked so as to reveal its true character and its lack of identity with such other drug.
• If the label or container bears the name of an individual or company purporting to be the manufacturer of the drug, which individual or company is fictitious or does not exist.
• If it has been substituted wholly or in part by any other drug or substance.
• If it purports to be the product of a manufacturer of whom it is not truly a product.

Misbranded Drug

• If it is so coloured, coated, powered or polished that damage is concealed, or if it is made to appear of better or greater therapeutic value than it really is.
• If it is not labelled in the prescribed manner.
• If its label or container or anything accompanying the drug bears any statement, design or device which makes any false claim for the drug or which is false or misleading in any particular.

Adulterated Drug

• If it consists, in whole or in part, of any filthy, putrid or decomposed substance.
• If it has been prepared, packed or stored under insanitary conditions whereby it may have been contaminated with filth or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health.
• If its container is composed, in whole or in part, of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents injurious to health.
• If it bears or contains, for purposes of colouring only, a colour other than one which is prescribed.
• If it contains any harmful or toxic substance which may render it injurious to health.
• If any substance has been mixed therewith so as to reduce its quality or strength.

Suspended Drug

• If it is sold, or offered or exhibited for sale, under a name which belongs to another drug.
• If it is an imitation of, or is a substitute for, another drug or resembles another drug in a manner likely to deceive, or bears upon it or upon its label or container the name of another drug, unless it is plainly and conspicuously marked so as to reveal its true character and its lack of identity with such other drug.
• If the label or container bears the name of an individual or company purporting to be the manufacturer of the drug, which individual or company is fictitious or does not exist.
• If it has been substituted wholly or in part by any other drug or substance.
• If it purports to be the product of a manufacturer of whom it is not truly a product.

Cancelled Drug

• If it is sold, or offered or exhibited for sale, under a name which belongs to another drug.
• If it is an imitation of, or is a substitute for, another drug or resembles another drug in a manner likely to deceive, or bears upon it or upon its label or container the name of another drug, unless it is plainly and conspicuously marked so as to reveal its true character and its lack of identity with such other drug.
• If the label or container bears the name of an individual or company purporting to be the manufacturer of the drug, which individual or company is fictitious or does not exist.
• If it has been substituted wholly or in part by any other drug or substance.
• If it purports to be the product of a manufacturer of whom it is not truly a product.