The report further said medications for export might be subject to less rigorous regulatory standards than those for domestic use...

The two were also fined Rs 100,000 each for exporting the medicine, Ranitidine Tablets B.P (Mantek-150), to Vietnam...

Global health agency has since October issued three global alerts cautioning against cough syrups contaminated with toxic chemicals called diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol...

The death of children in Gambia had nothing to do with consumption of cough syrup made in India. That has been clarified by the Gambian authorities and DCGI, both: Amit Malviya...

Marion Biotech officials were not immediately available on Wednesday to respond to Uzbek ministry’s claims...

Joint inspections are being conducted all over the country as per standard operating procedures, says the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare ...

Contaminants ‘are dangerous and should not be in any medicine ever’, World Health Organisation spokesperson tells The Telegraph...

Health activist Dinesh Thakur and lawyer T. Prashant Reddy had said that the central regulator needed to share responsibility with the state regulator concerned for the export of the syrups...

The committee will recommend further course of action to the Drugs Controller General of India after examining and analysing the adverse event reports...

Diplomatic gains over the years will be lost if the Indian govt does not undertake corrective action in pharma sector...