Drugs maintain wellness, prevent illness, treat disease, stop epidemics, and save lives. Fake, adulterated, and substandard medications are the main obstacle to this goal. Falsified drugs contain unclean, filthy, or rotting substances. In India, medication is "Not of Standard Quality" if it doesn't meet requirements. Fake or counterfeit pharmaceuticals threaten the industry's reputation and public health. Anyone promoting Substandard/ Spurious/ Falsely-labelled/ Falsified/ Counterfeit Medical Products on the market can have their licence suspended. Mashelkar Committee suggests regulatory frameworks to eliminate fake and inferior medications. The committee considers amending the Drugs and Cosmetics Act to punish fake drug sellers. The government has changed how whistleblowers are rewarded. This initiative includes informants and officials. Several anticounterfeit medicine technologies can track real and fake drugs. The Broadband Acoustic Resonance Dissolution Spectroscopy test uses a dissolution-based method to identify fake and real medication products using an audio spectrum.

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