They were even faking ivermectin pills during covid. Ivermectin is cheaper than dirt. I ain't buyin shit from Hindustan.
Damn that's sad. And I just got some ivermectin from India last month. Hope it's not still being faked
Suspicion of India Pharma is well earned, but they've improved a lot over the last decade. When you work with a good vendor, they know what's faked, what's legit, what brands to avoid, and won't want to sell you crap so they keep your business and their reputation.
I run a course of Ivermectin every year, so hearing about this had me concerned as well.
Word spread to the point several published studies have been done on India Pharma Ivermectin.
TLDR: One specific type was sold in Australia, a counterfeit of a legit brand. It *was* Ivermectin, just poorly made. 80% potency and didn't dissolve according to specifications (about 25% slower than it should've).
Every other sample of the dozens of brands these reports analyzed were fine. Some slightly overdosed by a few percent, some slightly out of dissolving spec, but not one has been found to be not Ivermectin or dangerous.
The best I've been able to come up with is a pharma regulator statistic that says about 3% of meds sold on the India local market in recent years are counterfeit, but overwhelmingly was the med it was supposed to be, just a low quality brand packaged as an expensive premium brand. There are cases of complete bunk too, but those are fairly rare.
Keep in mind over 50% of prescriptions in the US are filled with Indian produced medicines. I try to stick with brands that have FDA inspected factories for really critical meds like antibiotics or T4, ie, Abbot, Merck, Sun.