Cough syrup suspected of killing 12 kids in Cameroon might be made in India

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The medicine was not authorised to be imported and was probably smuggled into the country. Read more at straitstimes.com.

YAOUNDE – A variety of cough syrup suspected by Cameroonian authorities of killing a dozen children in the central African country in recent months bears markings indicating it was made in India.

The drugs in the photo “look like ours,” said a director at Riemann, Mr Navin Bhatia, in a phone interview. He said Riemann follows strict quality controls and could not have made tainted medicine, and that counterfeiting is common. “Based on your questions, we have sent a team to investigate and we are waiting for the reports,” an official at the Madhya Pradesh Food and Drugs Administration told Bloomberg.

 

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