Laboratory analysis of four Maiden Pharmaceuticals products showed ‘unacceptable’ amounts of potentially toxic diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol
New Delhi — Indian authorities have halted production of cough syrup at a factory of Maiden Pharmaceuticals, a state minister said on Wednesday, after a World Health Organisation report that the medicine may be linked to the deaths of dozens of children in Gambia.
WHO said last week that laboratory analysis of four Maiden products — Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Cough Syrup and Magrip N Cold Syrup — had “unacceptable” amounts of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol, which can be toxic and lead to acute kidney injury. It is one of the worst such incidents involving drugs from India, often dubbed a “pharmacy of the world”.
Diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol are used in antifreeze and brake fluids and other industrial applications, but also as a cheaper alternative in some pharmaceutical products to glycerine, a solvent or thickening agent in many cough syrups.
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