Noida: The Centre on Saturday really helpful the State Drug Controller Authority to cancel the manufacturing licence of Noida primarily based pharmaceutical agency Marion biotech after 22 out of 36 samples taken for testing had been discovered adulterated with Ethylene glycol, information company ANI reported. Marion Biotech had come underneath the scanner in December final 12 months for its cough syrup Dok-1 that’s suspected to have led to the demise of 18 youngsters who consumed it in Uzbekistan after which the CDSCO launched a probe into the matter. Earlier on Friday, Noida police arrested three staff of the pharma agency on prices of producing and sale of adulterated medicine.
The arrests had been made after an FIR was lodged late Thursday night time towards 5 officers of Marion Biotech, together with two of its administrators, over a criticism by a medication inspector of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO). Police stated the administrators are at giant and a search is underway to apprehend them.Â
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Central and Uttar Pradesh drug authorities had checked samples of Marion Biotech merchandise and located 22 of them to be “not of standard quality” (adulterated and spurious), in keeping with the complainant drug inspector.
Uzbekistan cough syrup matter | Centre recommends the State Drug Controller Authority to cancel manufacturing licence of Marion biotech after 22 out of 36 samples taken for testing from it had been discovered adulterated with Ethylene glycol: Gautam Budh Nagar Drug inspector, UP pic.twitter.com/A0noSUnwRF
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The manufacturing licence of the agency was suspended in January after inspections at its website by the central and the state drug authorities in the wake of the controversy.
On January 12, the World Health Organization (WHO) had issued a ‘medical product alert’, referring to 2 substandard (contaminated) merchandise, recognized in Uzbekistan and reported to it on December 22, 2022.
“The two products are AMBRONOL syrup and DOK-1 Max syrup. The stated manufacturer of both products is MARION BIOTECH PVT. LTD, (Uttar Pradesh, India). To date, the stated manufacturer has not provided guarantees to WHO on the safety and quality of these products,” the WHO had stated then.
“Laboratory analysis of samples of both products, undertaken by national quality control laboratories of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan found both products contained unacceptable amounts of diethylene glycol and/or ethylene glycol as contaminants,” it had famous.
