{
  "id": 16623942,
  "title": "Maharashtra Becomes First State To Deploy Drug Detection Machines; Medicines Screened In A Minute",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/maharashtra-becomes-first-state-to-deploy-drug-detection-machines",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-26T15:16:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/maharashtra-becomes-first-state-to-deploy-drug-detection-machines-medicines-screened-in-a-minute"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Mumbai, October 26, 2026: Maharashtra has become the first state in the country to introduce portable drug detection machines that can screen medicines in about a minute and flag potential discrepancies in their chemical composition. The state government has purchased eight Raman spectroscopy-based machines at Rs 1.2 crore each, spending a total of Rs 9.6 crore, to strengthen quality checks on…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}