17-06-2023, 12:32 PM
There is an ongoing global threat posed by toxic cough syrups, the World Health Organization (WHO) told Reuters, saying it was now working with six more countries than previously revealed to track the potentially deadly children's medicines.
In January, the WHO named four other countries it was working with ― Timor Leste, Cambodia, Senegal and the Philippines ― to track whether any of the tainted syrups had reached their markets.
Besides these cases, Indian-made medicines supplied to the Marshall Islands and Micronesia have been recalled after Australian laboratory tests showing contamination prompted a WHO safety alert.
There have also been at least five incidents in the last half century when paracetamol and cough medicines were contaminated with deadly chemicals, in countries including India and Panama, although the spate of deaths last year is the deadliest on record.
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In January, the WHO named four other countries it was working with ― Timor Leste, Cambodia, Senegal and the Philippines ― to track whether any of the tainted syrups had reached their markets.
Besides these cases, Indian-made medicines supplied to the Marshall Islands and Micronesia have been recalled after Australian laboratory tests showing contamination prompted a WHO safety alert.
There have also been at least five incidents in the last half century when paracetamol and cough medicines were contaminated with deadly chemicals, in countries including India and Panama, although the spate of deaths last year is the deadliest on record.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/world/2...53117.html