Dear Satish,
I think that comparisons of the package color and design and the quality of the packaging materials of the suspicious spurious drug to that of the original drug should be made. For example, the pack color, the carton quality and color, the strip material and logo are parameters that should be tested. Each approved drug has its own package color, strip material and logo and can be obtained on-line or from the source (company) for comparisons purposes.
Hoping this will be helpful,
Rafik
If product is protect by any technique like specific logo, identification marks which are hidden, particular type of ink and combination of colour whihc are difficult to replicate-duplicate then it canbe. Still to prove spurious one must have standard pack of medicine; which is usally difficult for common people to have.
NIR and Raman spectroscopy can be of use to detect spurious drug without opening the pack.
The definition as per Drugs and Cosmetics acts is as follows.
9B. Spurious drugs. -- For the purposes of this Chapter, a drug shall be deemed to be
spurious—
(a) if it is imported under a name which belongs to another drug; or
(b) if it is an imitation of , or a substitute for, another drug or resembles another drug in a manner likely to deceive or bears upon it or upon its label or container the name of another drug unless it is plainly and conspicuously marked so as to reveal its true character and its lack of identity with such other drug ; or
(c) if the label or the container bears the name of an individual or company purporting to be the manufacturer of the drug, which individual or company is fictitious or does not exist; or
(d) if it has been substituted wholly or in part by another drug or substance; or
(e) if it purports to be the product of a manufacturer of whom it is not truly a product .
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