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The Indonesian Palm Oil Association (GAPKI) and palm oil smallholders have protested the use of "palm oil-free" labels, while Trade Ministry regards the label as a negative campaign against food products containing palm oil.
The police scrutiny of BPOM is the latest escalation by states seeking accountability for contaminated syrups that were linked to the deaths of dozens more children in Gambia and Uzbekistan last year. The World Health Organization is working with countries to investigate the global pharmaceutical supply chain for such syrups.
A new app launched by the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BOPM), which allows health workers and the pharmaceutical industry to report drug side effects, is a step in the right direction to strengthen monitoring. But a change in regulation is necessary to prevent another disastrous distribution of tainted medicine, experts have said.
About 200 children have died of acute kidney injury in Indonesia since last year and authorities have said two ingredients, ethylene glycol and diethyelene glycol, found in some syrup-based paracetamol medications are linked to the illness.
The Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) revoked two more pharmaceutical companies’ licenses to produce medicinal syrups on Wednesday, bringing to five the total number of firms sanctioned for the manufacture of toxic medicines linked to deadly cases of acute kidney injury (AKI).
