WHO is­sues alert over con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed cough syrups

The World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion is is­su­ing an alert for batch­es of two cough syrups man­u­fac­tured by an In­di­an com­pa­ny that were found to be con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed.

The con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed prod­ucts, Am­bronol syrup and DOK-1 Max syrup, were iden­ti­fied in Uzbek­istan and re­port­ed to the WHO on Dec. 22 of last year. Ac­cord­ing to the WHO, an analy­sis con­duct­ed by Uzbek­istan’s Min­istry of Health iden­ti­fied “un­ac­cept­able amounts of di­eth­yl­ene gly­col and /or eth­yl­ene gly­col.” The WHO lists Mar­i­on Biotech, based in Ut­tar Pradesh, In­dia, as the man­u­fac­tur­er.

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