Contaminated cough syrup, containing lethal diethylene glycol, caused child deaths in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, exposing critical flaws...

Recent reports highlight serious illnesses and deaths linked to contaminated ColdRif cough syrups in India, primarily due to toxic industri...

A cough syrup named Coldrif has been linked to the deaths of 15 children. The syrup contained a toxic industrial solvent. Standard treatmen...

A government lab in Bhopal found 46.28% diethylene glycol (DEG), an industrial chemical, in a cough syrup sample linked to child deaths. Th...

In November 2022, the WHO warned about dangerous levels of ethylene glycol in certain products. Over 200 children in Indonesia died of Acut...

Marion Biotech, the Indian pharmaceutical company whose cough syrups were linked to the deaths of 65 children in Uzbekistan last year, will...

India's Uttar Pradesh state has allowed Marion Biotech's factory, linked to cough syrups causing child deaths, to resume most production. T...

India is set to make it mandatory for drugmakers to audit their raw material suppliers at least once a year, following concerns over the sa...

In December 2019, tragedy struck the Himalayan mountains as Jafar Din's two-month-old son, Irfan, fell ill. Desperate to save him, Din boug...

Indian manufacturer Marion Biotech used a toxic industrial-grade ingredient, propylene glycol (PG) which is a toxic material widely used in...

The company, Marion Biotech, bought the ingredient - propylene glycol (PG) - from trader Maya Chemtech India, as reported by Reuters. But M...

There is an ongoing global threat posed by toxic cough syrups, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The U.N. agency has already named ...

The report, submitted to the Gambian health ministry earlier this year and not yet made public, is the most definitive statement yet on the...

The FDA said manufacturers must perform the DEG and EG limit test on representative samples of each shipment of each lot of the component a...

The owner of Goel Pharma Chem, which Indian drugs regulator claims supplied the propylene glycol used by Maiden Pharmaceuticals in its coug...

The syrup was found by WHO to be adulterated with diethylene glycol (DEG) and ethylene glycol. Such adulteration is not uncommon in India. ...

In a statement on Thursday, the Union health ministry said the WHO had informed the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) that it was pr...