Regulator revokes state licensors' power to issue NOC for drug exportsIndia's drug regulator withdraws state licensing authorities' NOC issuance power for export of unapproved drugs due to substandard products...
04 May, 2024, 12.26 AM IST
India-made cough syrup case: Gambia panel suggests legal action against India, drug Co"It is safe to conclude, without any qualms, that the deaths of the 70 children below the age of five between July and October 2022 related...
29 Jul, 2023, 01.01 AM IST
Cough syrup deaths case: The meds they bought were toxic. Now Gambian parents seek justiceAt least 70 children died from acute kidney injury in Gambia last year, cases the World Health Organization (WHO) linked to medicines made ...
14 Jul, 2023, 10.46 AM IST
Indian drugs led to child deaths in Gambia: PanelThe report, submitted to the Gambian health ministry earlier this year and not yet made public, is the most definitive statement yet on the...
24 May, 2023, 12.51 AM IST
Cough syrup exporters need to undertake product testing at govt labs from June 1"The export of cough syrup shall be permitted to be exported subject to export samples being tested and production of certificate of analys...
23 May, 2023, 06.34 AM IST
India-made cough syrups caused disease in Gambia kids: US CDCIndian cough syrups exported to Gambia contaminated with diethylene glycol (DEG) and ethylene glycol (EG) led to acute kidney injury (AKI) ...
04 Mar, 2023, 12.45 AM IST
Cough syrup deaths: Congress links Gambia incident with Uzbekistan, BJP hits back"Made in India cough syrups seem to be deadly. First, it was the deaths of 70 kids in Gambia and now it is that of 18 children in Uzbekista...
29 Dec, 2022, 11.45 AM IST
Ready to assist in probe: WHO after Uzbekistan claims child deaths from Indian cough syrupAccording to an emailed reply by the DCGI on December 13, to Dr Rogerio Gaspar, director, Regulation and Prequalification, WHO, to a letter...
28 Dec, 2022, 09.34 PM IST
India inspects drug factories as Gambia controversy lingersIndia is known as the "pharmacy of the world" and its pharmaceuticals exports have more than doubled over the past decade to $24.5 billion ...
27 Dec, 2022, 04.24 PM IST
Maiden Pharma syrup caused child deaths: Gambian committee“The Select Committee is convinced that Maiden Pharmaceuticals Ltd is culpable and should be held accountable for exporting the contaminate...
26 Dec, 2022, 04.16 PM IST
India tells Gambia it is probing children deaths linked to India-made drugsIndian health authorities announced a production halt at domestic company Maiden Pharmaceuticals's factory in Sonepat in northern India on ...
13 Oct, 2022, 06.00 PM IST
Maharashtra drug regulator orders sample checks on all oral liquid solutionsThe order from drug regulator comes a day after Haryana's health department said they had halted all production of New Delhi-based Maiden P...
13 Oct, 2022, 11.17 AM IST
Govt forms panel to study WHO report on deaths of 66 Gambian children linked to 4 Indian syrupsThe development comes on a day the Haryana government ordered the halting of drug manufacturing at the Sonipat unit of Maiden Pharmaceutica...
12 Oct, 2022, 06.31 PM IST
Gambia child deaths: Haryana government halts cough syrup production at Maiden Pharmaceuticals factoryHaryana health minister Anil Vij told ANI that authorities inspected a Maiden factory in the town of Sonepat in the state and found 12 viol...
12 Oct, 2022, 11.35 AM IST
WHO issues cough syrup warning after 66 children die in The GambiaAccording to World Health Organization (WHO) statistics, renal failure was the reason for the death of 66 children in the Gambia who had al...
08 Oct, 2022, 02.30 PM IST
India needs a national drug recall law without further delay. Here's whyThe syrup was found by WHO to be adulterated with diethylene glycol (DEG) and ethylene glycol. Such adulteration is not uncommon in India. ...
07 Oct, 2022, 11.39 PM IST