QUALITY ALERT TRENDS
How many batches fail each month
Every month, India's drug regulator publishes lists of batches that failed lab testing. These are counts of those reports. They are not failure rates. A failure rate would need the total number of batches tested, which is not published.
Reports indexed6,112across 90 months
Highest month218Jan 2026
Latest month159Jun 2026 · up from prior month
Monthly report volume
Each bar is one month of published quality-alert reports.
Failed quality Suspected fake
Scroll horizontally to see the full time series. The rise in later years reflects more reports indexed in the dataset; it is not a failure rate.
Year-by-year view
Annual totals make the longer-term change easier to compare.
201912 months
403 reports
Average 34/month · Peak 51 in Mar
No prior-year comparison
202012 months
318 reports
Average 27/month · Peak 55 in Apr
↓ 21% vs 2019
202112 months
345 reports
Average 29/month · Peak 45 in Jul
↑ 8% vs 2020
202212 months
570 reports
Average 48/month · Peak 83 in Nov
↑ 65% vs 2021
202312 months
644 reports
Average 54/month · Peak 78 in Dec
↑ 13% vs 2022
202412 months
872 reports
Average 73/month · Peak 135 in Dec
↑ 35% vs 2023
202512 months
1,894 reports
Average 158/month · Peak 216 in Nov
↑ 117% vs 2024
20266 months
1,066 reports
Average 178/month · Peak 218 in Jan
↓ 44% vs 2025
Show monthly figures
Jan 2019
45
45 failed quality · 0 suspected fake
Feb 2019
37
37 failed quality · 0 suspected fake
Mar 2019
51
51 failed quality · 0 suspected fake
Apr 2019
30
30 failed quality · 0 suspected fake
May 2019
32
32 failed quality · 0 suspected fake
Jun 2019
25
25 failed quality · 0 suspected fake
Jul 2019
18
18 failed quality · 0 suspected fake
Aug 2019
28
28 failed quality · 0 suspected fake
Sept 2019
21
21 failed quality · 0 suspected fake
Oct 2019
35
35 failed quality · 0 suspected fake
Nov 2019
35
35 failed quality · 0 suspected fake
Dec 2019
46
46 failed quality · 0 suspected fake
Jan 2020
34
34 failed quality · 0 suspected fake
Feb 2020
38
38 failed quality · 0 suspected fake
Mar 2020
44
44 failed quality · 0 suspected fake
Apr 2020
55
55 failed quality · 0 suspected fake
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