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A joint inspection of the manufacturers Noida facility was carried out by the teams of the Uttar Pradesh Drug Control Department and CDSCO.The

Made in India cough syrups seem to be deadly. First it was the deaths of 70 kids in Gambia & now it is that of 18 children in Uzbekistan

Marion Biotech, headquartered in Sector 67 of Noida, is a licensed manufacturer and holds license for manufacturing of Dok1 Max syrup  linked to deaths of 18 children in Uzbekistan.

The manufacturing of Marion Biotech’s Dok-1 Max has stopped “for now”, the company’s legal representative said on Thursday as the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation began a probe in connection with the death of 18 children in Uzbekistan allegedly linked to the cough syrup.

The samples of the cough syrup have been taken from the manufacturing premises and sent to the Regional Drugs Testing Laboratory (RDTL), Chandigarh for testing.

In the letter to World Health Organization's director of regulation and prequalification Rogerio Gaspar, Drugs Controller General VG Somani said that the technical committee found that "the products have been found not to have been contaminated with DEG or EG as per the test reports. These reports have been made available to the aforesaid Technical Committee examining them."

A few months after the major crackdown on the racket circulating spurious blood pressure medicine Telma 40 in Cuttack, duplicate Clavam 625 capsules have been seized in Bhubaneswar and Jharsuguda raising grave concerns over the alleged rampant circulation and sale of such fake drugs in the state.

Nine medicine samples manufactured by various pharmaceutical firms in Himachal Pradesh are among 50 drugs declared substandard nationwide by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) in its monthly alert issued today.

NEW DELHI, Nov 16: The tenure of Dr V G Somani as the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has been again extended by another three months, according to an order issued by the Union Health Ministry. The extension will come into effect from Tuesday, the order said. He was earlier given an extension in August this year. “In continuation to office order dated 16.08.2022, the competent authority has concurred approval for Dr V G Somani, to continue to hold […]

The tenure of Dr V G Somani as the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has been extended by three months for the second time, according to an order issued by the Union Health Ministry.