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  • Maiden Pharmaceuticals denies tampering with tests of cough syrup linked to child deaths in Gambia

    Maiden Pharmaceuticals denies tampering with tests of cough syrup linked to child deaths in Gambia

    A pharmaceutical company, Maiden Pharmaceuticals, whose cough syrups have been associated with the deaths of children in Gambia, has refuted allegations of tampering with test samples or bribing officials to do so.

    The denial from India’s Maiden Pharmaceuticals comes in response to an accusation made against it in a complaint currently under investigation by local health officials in India.

    Authorities in the state of Haryana’s Food and Drug Administration announced on Friday that they were close to completing a probe into whether a state drug regulator was bribed to switch samples tested by the Indian government.

    These samples contradicted the World Health Organization (WHO)’s findings of toxic substances in the cough syrups.

    Maiden founder Naresh Kumar Goyal has vehemently denied the allegation. Goyal, as reported by Reuters, stated that a competitor was behind the complaint but did not disclose their identity.

    The WHO has linked syrups made by Maiden to the deaths of 70 children in Gambia.

    These deaths in the Gambia, attributed to kidney-related problems between July and October last year after consuming the cough syrup, were not isolated incidents. Dozens of other children also died in Cameroon and Uzbekistan.

  • FDA seizes pharmaceutical items that should not be sold over-the-counter

    FDA seizes pharmaceutical items that should not be sold over-the-counter

    The FDA branch located in the North East region has taken possession of unregistered pharmaceutical goods across six districts within the area.

    As per Jacob Amoako Mensah, Director of the FDA North East Region, the seized unregistered pharmaceutical items were not intended for over-the-counter sales.

    He noted that these products were meant to be acquired with a prescription, yet they were openly exhibited for direct sale to the general public.

    Mr Mensah in an interview with the media said, “The Food and Drug Authority since we came to the North East Region over four months now, we have combed the entire six districts of the region and have conducted market surveillance in all the over-the-counter medicine shops.”

    “We have retrieved a number of unregistered pharmaceutical products that are not to be sold by over-the-counter medicine sellers because for pharmaceuticals, we are supposed to buy them with prescriptions and these drugs found are not supposed to be sold,” he said.

    The confiscated goods were disposed of at the Gambaga dam site.