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Gambia death case: Drug regulator finds no contamination in syrup
Updated On: 16 December, 2022 01:48 PM IST | New Delhi | ANI
A four-members subject experts` technical committee was formed, chaired by Dr Y K Gupta, Vice Chairperson, Standing National Committee on Medicines with experts from the National Institute of Virology-ICMR, Pune, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and CDSCO also in the team
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India`s drug regulator claimed that the samples of Maiden Pharma`s cough syrups which caused the deaths of children in Gambia were not contaminated with diethylene glycol (DEG) and ethylene glycol (EG) and also called World Health Organization (WHO) for "prematurely" blaming an Indian company for the deaths without verification.
In the letter to World Health Organization`s director of regulation and prequalification Rogerio Gaspar, Drugs Controller General VG Somani said that a technical committee constituted by the Government of India found that "the products have been found not to have been contaminated with DEG or EG as per the test reports."
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