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There have been poisonings in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Marshall Islands, Pakistan, Panama, The Gambia, India (twice), Uzbekistan, and Cameroon between 1992 and 2022, due to contaminated cough syrup and other medications that incorporated inexpensive diethylene glycol instead of glycerine.
Prior to its establishment, drugs including but not limited to codeine-laced cough syrup, some alcoholic health tonics, tablets, and syrups were banned from being marketed and produced in 1982, then in 1984 opium (which has a long history in both Bangladesh and its neighbor India) was banned, in 1987 the cultivation of cannabis was stopped and ...
Corex is a cough syrup sold by Pfizer Inc. [1] It is available in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and a few other South Asian countries. Corex is a prescribed medicine. Corex is a prescribed medicine. Its active ingredients are chlorpheniramine maleate and codeine phosphate .
Cough syrups made in India and Indonesia have been linked to deaths of more than 300 children globally. The medicines were found to contain high levels of DEG and EG, leading to acute kidney ...
A contaminated batch of Benylin Paediatric Syrup is no longer available in the African countries where it was sold, the World Health Organization said on Monday. Earlier this month, Nigeria ...
In Bangladesh between 1990 and 1992, 339 children developed kidney failure, and most of them died, after being given paracetamol (acetaminophen) syrup contaminated with diethylene glycol. The outbreak forced the government to ban the sale of paracetamol elixirs in December 1992, causing a decline of 53% in the admission of patients with kidney ...
The chief executive and three other officials of a cough syrup company linked to the deaths of more than 200 children have been jailed in Indonesia after they were found guilty of violating drug ...
Codeine is also present in various cough syrups as codeine phosphate including chlorpheniramine maleate. Pure codeine is also available as codeine sulphate tablets. Codeine containing cough medicine has been banned in India with effect from 14 March 2016. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has found no proof of its efficacy against cough ...