Few months after warning against India-made cough syrups in various nationst The WHO has again issued a global alert regarding an Indian-made cough syrup called Cold Out, which is being sold in Iraq. The medication was found to be contaminated with toxins. This is the fifth such warning being issued against an Indian manufacturer in the past 10 months.The alert warned that the substandard batch of the product is unsafe and its use, especially in children, may result in serious injury or death. The sample was found to contain unacceptable amounts of 0.25% of diethylene glycol and 2.1% of ethylene glycol as contaminants. The acceptable safety limit for both ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol is no more than 0.10%.Highlighting the risk, the WHO said that diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol are toxic to humans when consumed and can prove fatal. Toxic effects can include abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, inability to pass urine, headache, altered mental state and acute kidney injury which may lead to death. . WHO has also said that a sample of the Cold Out syrup was obtained from one location in Iraq and has been submitted for further laboratory analysis.
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00:00 Few months after warning against India made cough syrups in various nations, the WHO
00:07 has again issued a global alert regarding an Indian made cough syrup called Cold Out
00:12 which is being sold in Iraq.
00:14 The medication was found to be contaminated with toxins.
00:18 This is the fifth such warning being issued against an Indian manufacturer in the past
00:23 10 months.
00:24 The alert warned that the substandard batch of the product is unsafe and its use, especially
00:29 in children, may result in serious injury or death.
00:33 The sample was found to contain unacceptable amounts of 0.25% of diethylene glycol and
00:40 2.1% of ethylene glycol as contaminants.
00:45 The acceptable safety limit for both ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol is no more than
00:50 0.10%.
00:52 Highlighting the risk, the WHO said that diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol are toxic to humans
00:57 when consumed and can prove fatal.
01:00 Toxic effects can include abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, inability to pass urine,
01:06 headache, altered mental state and acute kidney injury which may even lead to death.
01:12 WHO has also said that a sample of the Cold Out syrup was obtained from one location in
01:16 Iraq and has been submitted for further laboratory analysis.
01:21 Ford's Laboratories for Diabolical Pharma is the company which manufactures this cough
01:25 syrup.
01:26 However, Ford's Vice President Bala Surendran has claimed that production of the medicine
01:30 had been subcontracted to another company, a Puducherry-based Sharon Pharmaceuticals
01:35 Pvt Ltd.
01:36 He further added that Ford's had found no contamination in a sample it had on its hand.
01:42 This alert about Cold Out is the latest warning issued in recent months about contaminated
01:46 cough syrups from India.
01:48 At least five of the syrups under scrutiny involved Indian manufacturers.
01:52 Last year, cough syrups made in India were linked to the deaths of at least 89 children
01:57 in Gambia and Uzbekistan.
01:59 The Indian authorities had also found violations at Riemann Labs whose cough syrup was linked
02:04 to the deaths of children in Cameroon.
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