Bolar also pleaded guilty last year to selling adulterated and mislabeled generic drugs.

I support my entire family," said Aisha, apparently unperturbed by the deaths and devastation that has been blamed on adulterated drugs.

In 1848, the first national law concerned with regulating food come out of the Mexican-American War, and "banned the importation of adulterated drugs".

The drug industry opposes the bill, saying it could expose Americans to adulterated or counterfeit drugs.

It was fined $10 million in 1991 for selling adulterated and mislabeled drugs.

Drug companies mobilized lobbyists to oppose the legislation, saying it would allow the sale of adulterated and counterfeit drugs that pose huge risks to consumers.

"But we should not run the risk of allowing large numbers of adulterated drugs into this country."

Do you have any idea what an adulterated drug can do to people when the doctors do not know it has been tampered with?

Over 100 heart patients died after administration of adulterated drugs by the Punjab Institute of Cardiology.

Bolar Pharmaceutical has been charged with illegally distributing adulterated generic drugs, Justice officials said.