India accuses Balaji Amines of making pharma-grade chemical without a drug-making licence

[ad_1] Indian authorities have accused Balaji Amines of producing pharmaceutical-grade propylene glycol without a drug manufacturing licence, after some batches were found to be substandard, government documents show Propylene glycol or PG has been at the centre of a major scandal with its suspected contamination in Indian-made cough syrups linked to deaths of more than…

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Cough syrup deaths: CDSCO launches risk-based inspection at manufacturing units of 19 drugs

[ad_1] Central drug regulator, CDSCO, has initiated risk-based inspection at the manufacturing units of 19 drugs, including cough syrups and antibiotics, across six states following reports of child deaths due to the consumption of contaminated cough syrup in Madhya Pradesh, the health ministry said on Saturday. The inspections by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation…

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When Did Pharma Stop Caring? The Complicated Truth About an Industry’s Evolution –

[ad_1] There’s a popular narrative that pharmaceutical companies were once noble healers who genuinely cared about patients, but at some point—perhaps in the 1980s or the 2000s—they became soulless profit-driven machines. It’s a compelling story, but like most origin myths, it oversimplifies a far messier reality. The uncomfortable truth is that the pharmaceutical industry has…

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