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India’s drug regulator inspected 90pc of cough syrup makers, found lapses

Updated 25 Feb, 2026 05:46am

MUMBAI: India’s drug regulator has inspected nearly 90 percent of the country’s cough syrup makers and found...

India’s drug regulator inspected 90% of cough syrup makers, found lapses, official says

Published 23 Feb, 2026 04:57pm

We took serious actions on serious non-compliances, and our belief is that the rot of cough syrup manufacturing will be removed

Abbott faces India scrutiny in cough syrup abuse investigation, documents show

Published 23 Jan, 2026 06:59pm

Abbott’s Phensedyl contains codeine, which is a narcotic used in cough suppressants that are also abused by addicts

WHO says India has much to do on toxic cough syrup despite some progress

Published 21 Oct, 2025 04:04pm

LONDON: India has more work to do in halting sales of toxic cough syrup, despite some progress, a World Health...

India to force drugmakers to upgrade plants after fatal cough syrup crisis

Published 17 Oct, 2025 11:33pm

CHHINDWARA: India has refused drugmakers’ requests to extend a year-end deadline for them to upgrade their...

India’s Tamil Nadu cancels licence of cough syrup-maker linked to child deaths

Published 13 Oct, 2025 06:13pm

CHENNAI: India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu has cancelled the licences of a cough syrup-maker linked to the deaths...

WHO calls out gap in India’s cough syrup testing after deaths

Published 09 Oct, 2025 12:24am

NEW DELHI: Indian authorities advised the public to avoid two more brands of cough syrup on Wednesday following the...

WHO asks India to check whether cough syrup linked to child deaths was exported

Published 08 Oct, 2025 06:15pm

NEW DELHI, CHENNAI: Indian authorities advised the public to avoid two more brands of cough syrup on Wednesday...

Police launch manslaughter probe into India’s cough syrup deaths

Published 07 Oct, 2025 12:12am

HYDERABAD: Indian police have opened a manslaughter probe into the deaths of at least 14 children linked to a toxic...

India firm denies tampering with tests in probe of cough syrup deaths

Published 23 Dec, 2023 03:26pm

NEW DELHI: India’s Maiden Pharmaceuticals, whose cough syrups have been linked to the deaths of children in Gambia,...

Indonesian court jails CEO, three others, over deadly cough syrup

Published 02 Nov, 2023 03:16am

JAKARTA: An Indonesian court sentenced to jail on Wednesday the chief executive and three other officials of a...

Indian labs to give ‘top priority’ to tests on cough syrup exports

Published 24 May, 2023 07:00pm

NEW DELHI: India’s government laboratories should give “top priority” to testing cough syrup for export, the drug...

India makes tests mandatory for cough syrup export after overseas deaths

Published 23 May, 2023 08:52pm

NEW DELHI: India will make tests mandatory for cough syrups before they are exported, a government notice showed on...

Uzbekistan arrests four over Indian cough syrup deaths

Published 06 Jan, 2023 03:59pm

TASHKENT: Uzbekistan has arrested four people in an investigation into the deaths of 19 children who consumed cough...

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