Gambia will make it mandatory for all pharmaceutical products from India to be inspected and tested prior to shipment.
At least 70 children died in Gambia last year after ingesting a cough syrup made in India. File photo.Gambia will make it mandatory for all pharmaceutical products from India to be inspected and tested before shipment from July 1, according to Gambian government documents reviewed by Reuters, the first known restrictions on national exports after the deaths of dozens of children linked to Indian-made cough syrups.
The letter said the MCA had appointed Quntrol Laboratories, an independent inspection and testing company for pharmaceuticals based in Mumbai, to issue a Clean Report of Inspection and Analysis for all shipments from India. Janneh Kaira told Reuters the rule “applies to India for now only”. Since June 1, India has made tests mandatory for all cough syrups before they are exported.With 2.5-million people, Gambia is one of Africa’s smallest and poorest countries. The World Bank is funding a testing laboratory in Gambia but it is not finished.
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