Talk:Ranbaxy Laboratories

Acquisition
Expand the section on the acquisition please. Laxstar5 (talk) 16:27, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Largest
The article currently describes Ranbaxy as India's largest pharmaceutical company, while the article on Dr. Reddy's Laboratories describes Dr. Reddy's Laboratories as India’s biggest pharmaceutical company. Does this make any sense? Is this company the largest while the other is the biggest? 85.228.101.208 (talk) 13:11, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

US FDA says Ranbaxy plant falsified data
WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A plant owned by Indian generic drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories (RANB.BO) falsified data and test results in approved and pending drug applications, U.S. regulators said on Wednesday. http://www.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idUSN2549047720090225 Mullins99 (talk) 20:58, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

This company has a history of data falsification. 30 drugs marketed by Ranbaxy were banned from the US market in 2008. See article: http://www.yourlawyer.com/articles/read/15151 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.27.129.31 (talk) 08:27, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

This is pretty horrifying and should be used in the article. 70.36.142.149 (talk) 05:02, 17 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes, it is. However, it is already covered in the article. Your reference is linked as well. Alfie  ↑↓ © 21:22, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Shocking POV
The "reasons for merger" section is (at the most basic level) a POV/opinion piece that has no business in this project. It's entire purpose appears to be to push a particular POV. It's full of opinion, flowery language and hyperbole, and the fact that it has a "conclusions" sub-section suggests it is a form of OR completely unsuited to this project. It also talks in CYRSTALBALL terms about what's going to happen in the future - in a fashion again totally unsuited to this project. It may be that some of it can be salvaged, but - if not - it should be culled completely; Save for the one or two cited facts in the "intro" about when and how the M&A came about. Guliolopez (talk) 16:29, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * OK. Given that there were no alternative suggestions, I culled all the POV/OR content. (And noted in the process that it appeared to be a largely a copy and paste of this) And therefore broke a further tenet. Guliolopez (talk) 15:09, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Emerging from issues
I just undid this edit which removed a new paragraph about Ranbaxy beginning to emerge from a troubled time in its history. While true that the paragraph is not an "issue," the paragraph is relevant to Ranbaxy's history. Perhaps the article is not structured well to chronicle the company's history. I would recommend against removing properly-sourced content. -- ke4roh (talk) 14:44, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Merger with Sun Pharma?
For whatever it is worth, I went to their web site and got redirected to that of Sun Pharma. Limit-theorem (talk) 17:34, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

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Controversies largely underplayed
I just listened to a 2h30 audio interview of Katherine Eban, the author of "Bottle of Lies", a new book about Ranbaxy's scandal.
 * Book here, https://www.amazon.com/Bottle-Lies-Inside-Story-Generic/dp/0062338781
 * Audio interview here https://peterattiamd.com/katherineeban/.

The criminal nature and the scale of Ranbaxy's fraudulent activities are clearly underplayed in this article, through the use of euphemisms, distractions, and the lack of relevant information. Ranbaxy was way more than simply "laden with controversy" as currently stated in the introduction, and the Controversies section currently does not make it clear that the company's "whose business model was completely dependent on falsifying data in their drug applications to the FDA" (in the words of Katherine Eban's interviewer). What can be done to fix this? Dragice (talk) 10:36, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Having read "Bottle of Lies" in August, I agree with your statements above.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 03:05, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I added a couple sentences about the book, but I'm not willing to rewrite the entire section myself based on the single source that I read. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 19:06, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

I was surprised to read the above comments, as my reaction to the tone of the section was very different. It seems to mostly describe a bustup with the FDA, and reads as if written by someone with an axe to grind. US big pharma is very, very hostile to generic drug manufacturers, particularly Indian ones, and this attitude is shared to a greater or lesser extent by the entire US health system. The rest of the world seems perfectly happy to use generic drugs, and doctors there are encouraged (and sometimes required) to prescribe generically. --Ef80 (talk) 14:10, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

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