Jaipur, Sept. 3 -- Seventeen of the 478 drug samples tested in Rajasthan during August were found to be substandard, prompting authorities to seize more than 12,000 injections and initiate the recall of an anaesthetic drug from the market, officials said. Seven of the failed samples were of Bupivacaine Heavy injections from batch number BKBP 02601. The drug samples were collected from Jaipur, Sriganganagar, Hanumangarh, Jhalawar and Kota. Tests conducted at the state drug-testing laboratory in Jaipur found bacterial endotoxins in all seven samples, following which they were declared "not of standard quality". The drug control authorities seized 12,228 Bupivacaine Heavy injections, valued at more than Rs.4 lakh, from Jaipur, Sriganganagar and Hanumangarh. The department has also prohibited the sale of the batch and initiated its recall from the market. The action followed reports of adverse reactions among patients in other states who had allegedly been administered injections from the same batch, medical and health secretary Gayatri Rathore said, adding that action was being initiated against the manufacturers and others responsible for the drugs that failed to meet the stipulated quality standards.htc...