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    Aurobindo Pharma faces CA Suit in US for concealing facts

    Medical Dialogues BureauWritten by Medical Dialogues Bureau Published On 2020-04-09T13:36:56+05:30  |  Updated On 9 April 2020 1:36 PM IST
    Aurobindo Pharma faces CA Suit in US for concealing facts

    Hyderabad: A class-action suit has been filed against some drug manufacturers, including Aurobindo Pharma and Emcure Pharmaceuticals, in a USA court for allegedly concealing facts about a cancer-causing agent, N- nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) presence in metformin medicine. MSP Recovery Claims filed the petition on April 3 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on behalf of similarly-situated healthcare insurers to recover payments unlawfully induced by the drug makers- Aurobindo Pharma, Aurolife Pharma, LLC and Heritage Pharmaceuticals LLC.

    Metformin is the most prescribed oral pharmaceutical drug for patients with type-2 diabetes.

    The petition was based on tests done by Valisure, an online pharmacy. Valisures tests revealed that the metformin produced by Aurobindo and Heritage were contaminated with NDMA with levels between 37 and 266 ng per tablet. As to Heritages metformin products, the NDMA present was up to 8.6 times the FDAs interim daily limit.

    The Valisure, while posting the results on its website, however, indicated that Aurobindo passed the FDA test for the NDMA presence. Officials of Aurobindo could not be reached for their comments. The petition claimed that the defendants have manufactured and distributed metformin drugs throughout the United States, for which the litigants assignors paid approximately USD 124 million on behalf of their members.

    The drug makers breached their express warranties with respect to their Metformin drugs because the drugs did not comply with cGMPs (Current Good Manufacturing Practices), were adulterated and contaminated, were not bioequivalent to branded drugs, and could not lawfully be sold, the petitioner alleged.

    The Defendants knowingly and with an intent to defraud, concealed from Plaintiff and Class Members the material facts concerning their pervasive cGMP violations "...made express and implied representations to Plaintiffs assignors and Class Members that their Metformin drugs conformed to applicable standards of quality, purity, identity and strength, were not adulterated and were merchantable, fit for human consumption and fit for their intended purpose when, in truth and in fact, the Metformin drugs were contaminated with a probable human carcinogen, the petition said.

    The petitioner claims are typical because the drug companies, through their misrepresentations and omissions, caused Plaintiffs and the Class Members to pay for adulterated and contaminated Metformin for which Plaintiff and the Class never should have had to pay, the petition alleged.

    Read also: Aurobindo Pharma gets USFDA nod for Azithromycin 250 mg and 500 mg

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    Source : PTI

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