The Madhya Pradesh drug controller on Monday found two more cough and cold syrups to be contaminated with diethylene glycol, which can cause acute kidney and liver failure, and labelled them as “not of standard quality”.
This came a day after the state’s drug testing laboratory in Bhopal found 46.28% diethylene glycol in a sample of Coldrif cough syrup, which is allegedly linked to the death of at least 14 children from Chhindwara.
The deaths were recorded in the towns of Parasia and Chaurai in the Chhindwara district, the Chhindwara city, and the town of Betul, Shubham Kumar Yadav, sub district magistrate in Parasia, told Scroll.
“Yesterday we received information of two more deaths, one each from Parasia and Betul,” Yadav added. “We are investigating them.”
The permissible limit of diethylene glycol as an impurity is 0.1%. However, drug officials Scroll spoke to said that the chemical is unsafe even in trace amounts and should ideally be completely absent from an ingestible syrup. Its presence is a serious quality compliance issue, the officials said.
An official in Bhopal confirmed to Scroll that the two other cough syrups found contaminated on Monday are Relife syrup and Respifresh TR. “We so far know that the two syrups have been manufactured in Gujarat,” Tina Yadav, state...
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