jaipur the health departments food safety and drug control commissionerate fsdcc has released a list of 23 drugs that are of below standard quality these drugs should not be consumed anymore and appropriate safeguard to consumers is provided by withdrawing the available stock as per the provisions of the drugs and cosmetics act 1940 an order issued by fsdcc saidthe companies which manufactured the drugs are based out of jaipur dholpur and alwar in rajasthan solon in hinachal pradesh roorkee in uttar pradesh and surendranagar in gujarat most of the samples were declared as substandard as it did not confirm to the claims made on the strip of the drugs among 23 samples 11 were of chlorpheniramine maleate ammonium chloride sodium citrate and menthol syrup which did not confirm to the claim with respect to assay analysis for assessing the amount or presence of a content in drug of menthol among these 11 samples three were manufactured by kaysons pharma in jaipur and the rest belonged to navkar lifesciences of solon in himachal pradesh fsdcc officials collect samples of medicines for checking the quality of drugs on routine basis to ensure that patients get medicines which help them