PHARMACOVIGILANCE PROGRAMME OF INDIA (PvPI)

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• This happened after the Union Health Ministry’s pharmaceutical watchdog, the National Co-ordination Centre of the Pharmacovigilance Programme of India (PvPI), raised an alert on adverse reactions that were being reported from 7 commonly-used antibiotics. 
  
  
• The 7 Antibiotics are: Cefotaxime, Ofloxacin, Cefixime, Tranexamic Acid, Quetiapine, Sulfasalazine and Sodium Valproate. 
  
  
• CDSCO has written to drug manufacturers, to mention in leaflets inserted into drug packets or on promotional literature, information about the adverse reactions of these medicines.