Gambia tightens pharmaceutical quality checks for shipments from India
At least 70 children died in the West African country last year due to acute kidney injury, which the doctors had linked to adulterated cough syrups from India.
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At least 70 children died in the West African country last year due to acute kidney injury, which the doctors had linked to adulterated cough syrups from India.
The MCA has appointed Quntrol Laboratories, a Mumbai-based private inspection and testing company, to carry out the process and issue the CRIA for all shipments
This comes nearly a year after 70 children died in the Gambia allegedly after consuming contaminated syrups manufactured by Haryana-based Maiden pharmaceuticals.
Gambia has announced that all pharmaceutical products from India must be inspected and tested before shipment from 1 July, following the deaths of dozens of children linked to Indian-made cough syrups.
By Krishna N. Das and Edward McAllister NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Gambia will make it mandatory for all pharmaceutical products from India to be inspected...