Gambia tightens rules for Indian drugs after cough syrup deaths — letter: India's industry supplies nearly half the pharmaceuticals used in Africa.
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 exports from India after the deaths of dozens of children linked to Indian-made cough syrups.
Gambia's move is to “address issues related to substandard and falsified [counterfeit] medicines entering the country”, the executive director of its Medicines Control Agency Markieu Janneh Kaira wrote in a letter to India's drug controller general Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi on June 15.
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