Charging the importers and distributors of cardiac stent of making over 100 per cent profit, Maharashtra's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today said it has asked the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority to regulate its "high prices".

"It has come to FDA's notice that demand for cardiac stents has increased considerably and also the fact that cardiac stents are being exorbitantly priced," FDA Commissioner Harshadeep Kamble said here today.