January 19, 2018

A federal court in New Jersey imposed a $5 million civil penalty and entered a permanent injunction against Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Inc., the North American subsidiary of Indian pharmaceutical company Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited, for failing to comply with the Poison Prevention Packaging Act (PPPA) and the Consumer Product Safety Act. Specifically, the company distributed household oral prescription drugs in blister packs that were not child resistant as required by the PPPA and despite being warned by its own employees that the blister packs had not been tested for PPPA compliance and that certain blister packs were expected to fail the PPPA’s child test protocol. DOJ

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