Fact Check: Viral video of medicine capsules filled with iron nails is fake and not from India
A video showing medicine capsules filled with iron nails inside them is in circulation with the narrative that everyone should test the capsules using magnets and that the nails are part of a new jihad.
A video showing medicine capsules filled with iron nails inside them is in circulation with the narrative that everyone should test the capsules using magnets and that the nails are part of a new jihad.
Tha caption shared with video in Telugu is "క్యాప్సూల్ను మింగడానికి ముందు సోదరులందరూ తప్పనిసరిగా అయస్కాంతంతో తనిఖీ చేయాలి...కొత్త జిహాద్ పుట్టుకొస్తోంది."
This video is doing rounds on WhatsApp and is being shared on YouTube too.
Fact Check:
The claim is false. The video in circulation is a hoax.
When we extracted key frames from the video and searched them using Google reverse image search, we found that these videos are in circulation since early 2021. The viral video is a mix of two videos showing two different medicinal capsules.
When observing the YouTube video carefully, we can see that the strip of Escoral has Urdu words on it. The strip states Escoral 20mg capsules. Manufactured by: City Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Sector 5, Karachi.
When we searched for City Pharmaceutical Laboratories, we found their website which had the same logo as in the viral video.
In the about us page, they mentioned that the operations started in May 2011 in Karachi, Pakistan.
The second clip is not very clear, but when we searched the screenshots of the video, we found old fact checks which confirmed that the video is not from India, but is a product of a Bosnian company. The medicine in the video is ‘Enterofuryl 200 mg’. It is manufactured by Bosnalijek, a Bosnian pharmaceutical company based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The video was debunked by Stop Fake.kz, a fact-check organization based in Kazakhstan. According to their report, Enterofuryl is a medicinal product in the form of capsules manufactured by Bosnalijek, JSC, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The production process of the drug ‘Enterofuryl’ is fully automated and it is not possible to remove one or more capsules and replace them without stopping the entire production process. The Medical and Pharmaceutical Control Committee of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan reported that the committee has not received any official information from consumers, registration certificate holders, or subjects of pharmaceutical activities about the discovery of any foreign substances in Enterofuryl capsules.’
The video was also debunked by Factly.
Though we could not independently verify the authenticity of the videos, they are not from India and there is no direct harm due to these medicinal capsules. Two unrelated videos are being shared with a false narrative. The claim is false.