India has suspended the manufacturing license of QP Pharmachem Ltd after cough syrups linked to child deaths in Gambia and Uzbekistan were found to be contaminated.
The U.N. agency has already named nine countries where tainted syrups may have been on sale, after the deaths of more than 300 infants on three continents last year were linked to the drugs.
The Union Government, on 22 May, notified an order stating made-in-India cough syrups will have to go through mandatory quality checks in government-run labs before they are cleared for export. What about those sold in India?