The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Pune division, has decided to serve a show-cause notice to Hindustan Antibiotics Limited (HAL), a public sector company, for wrong labelling of normal saline (NS). Normal saline is a general phrase referring to a sterile solution of sodium chloride, but the label on 23 batches of NS had labels displaying dextrose as an ingredient in the composition. Each batch contained 5,800 bottles of 500 ml each.

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