Factory making 'Isotab' sealed in Karachi

The police and FIA official have sealed factory of Efroze Pharmaceutical preparing Isotab- a medicine which was declared contaminated with anti-malarial element causing reaction in patients taking cardiac medicine from Punjab Institute iof Cardiology.According to the report, Isotab samples were heavily contaminated with Pyrimethamine, which is commonly used as anti-malaria. Isotab was manufactured by a Karachi based company Efroze.According to details, the samples of Isotab (tablet), which were dispatched to a state-of-the-art lab in London, were tested as substandard and injurious to health.The lab report revealed Isotab samples to be heavily contaminated with Pyrimethamine, a commonly used anti-malarial.Traces of anti-malarial in the samples of Isotab were dangerously high, it added.