TN Bans Coldrif Cough Syrup After Child Deaths in MP, Rajasthan
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government banned the sale of cough syrup ‘Coldrif’ and ordered the removal of Madhya Pradesh and 11 children in Rajasthan. The sale of cough syrups produced by the city -based company, the sale of cough syrups produced by Tamil Nadu was officially banned from Food Safety.
Official, for the last two days, the neighboring Kancheepuram region Sunguvuvarcathram’daki pharmaceutical company’s production facility was inspected and examples were collected, he said.
The company said that the drugs supply Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Pudducherry.
In his statement to the PTI, samples will be sent to laboratories operated by the Government to test the presence of the chemical ‘dietylene glycol’.
The Ministry of Health, which is aware of infant deaths, made a consultancy to all states and union regions on Friday and led coughing and cold drugs should not be prescribed to children under 2 years of age.
The consultancy published by the General Directorate of Health Services is the reports of child deaths allegedly linked to the contaminated cough syrups in Madhya Pradesh and similar events reported in Rajasthan.
Food safety official, “the department was asked to prevent the sale of syrup and freeze stocks from 1 October,” he said.
The samples collected from the facility will also be tested by the Union Government.
Answering a query, syrup said that the company was given to Pudducherry, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh.
According to the pharmaceutical department, the company was ordered to stop syrup production in the facility until the reports from the laboratories were finished.
“We expect the report to be published in the coming days,” he said.
Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath has accused the ‘brake oil solvent’ mixture in cough syrups for the deaths of children with suspicious kidney relaxation in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara region since September 7.
Media reports in Rajasthan’da two babies died in the case of the fee reached 9.
