India allows cough syrup firm linked to Uzbek deaths to re-open factoryIndia's Uttar Pradesh state has allowed Marion Biotech's factory, linked to cough syrups causing child deaths, to resume most production. T...
11 Oct, 2023, 12.55 PM IST
Lax testing fuelled wave of cough syrup poisoningsIn December 2019, tragedy struck the Himalayan mountains as Jafar Din's two-month-old son, Irfan, fell ill. Desperate to save him, Din boug...
13 Sep, 2023, 05.11 PM IST
Indian firm Marion Biotech used toxic industrial-grade ingredient in syrup: SourcesIndian manufacturer Marion Biotech used a toxic industrial-grade ingredient, propylene glycol (PG) which is a toxic material widely used in...
28 Jun, 2023, 11.12 AM IST
Indian firm Marion Biotech used toxic industrial-grade ingredient in syrup: SourcesThe company, Marion Biotech, bought the ingredient - propylene glycol (PG) - from trader Maya Chemtech India, as reported by Reuters. But M...
28 Jun, 2023, 07.21 AM IST
More India-made cough and cold syrups under WHO lens"To date this situation has impacted more than 20 products with two countries of origin (India & Indonesia) and more than 15 different manu...
22 Jun, 2023, 01.17 PM IST
Seven medicines manufactured in India flagged ‘toxic’ by WHOWorld Health Organisation (WHO) spokesperson Christian Lindmeier, confirmed the development in an email to The Indian Express. The twenty m...
20 Jun, 2023, 04.08 PM IST
WHO says toxic syrup risk 'ongoing', more countries hitThere is an ongoing global threat posed by toxic cough syrups, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The U.N. agency has already named ...
16 Jun, 2023, 04.54 PM 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
Another Indian pharma manufacturer in news after WHO's substandard medicine alertThe alert was issued for a batch of substandard (contaminated) Guaifenesin Syrup TG Syrup. The substandard product was identified in the Ma...
25 Apr, 2023, 06.32 PM IST
Cough syrup case: Marion Biotech licence cancelledThe decision to cancel the licence was taken after the Regional Drugs Testing Laboratory (RDTL), Chandigarh, which tested the samples of th...
23 Mar, 2023, 12.29 AM IST
India prohibits use of propylene glycol from supplier linked to Uzbekistan deathsSoon after India suspended the pharmaceutical company's production. Police this month arrested three Marion employees after tests in a gove...
09 Mar, 2023, 04.44 PM IST
Probe into Uzbekistan cough syrup deaths: 3 employees of Noida-based Marion Biotech arrestedThe arrests come after an FIR was lodged late Thursday night against five officials of Marion Biotech, including two of its directors, over...
03 Mar, 2023, 06.45 PM IST
WHO investigating links among cough syrup deaths, considers advice for parentsCiting "unacceptable levels" of toxins in the products, the WHO is seeking more information about the specific raw materials used by six ma...
24 Jan, 2023, 02.48 PM IST
Uzbekistan Cough Syrup Case: Marion Biotech's production licence suspended, test results awaited"The production licence of the firm remains suspended, as was ordered on December 29. Now the suspension order has been issued in writing t...
12 Jan, 2023, 12.30 PM IST
UP suspends production licence of Marion Biotech over Uzbekistan deathsTalking to ANI, the Gautam Buddha Nagar drug inspector Vaibhav Babbar said "We have suspended the production license of Marion Biotech comp...
10 Jan, 2023, 09.47 PM IST
Administering 220 crore doses of Covid vaccine in India highpoint of 2022The health ministry, which was kept on its toes by coronavirus, had to briefly deal with the challenge of monkeypox which had sparked a maj...
31 Dec, 2022, 01.31 PM IST
AstraZeneca's Pascal Soriot: Know the man behind the Covid vaccineThe development of the vaccine with scientists at Oxford University -- and their decision to make it available at cost -- has made the Angl...
18 Mar, 2021, 10.17 AM IST