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Society 3 years ago
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Police probe drug regulator BPOM over cough syrup
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.
Society 3 years ago
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BPOM's drug app not a panacea: Experts
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.
Society 3 years ago
Jakarta court hears class-action suit for tainted cough syrup
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.
Society 3 years ago
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Two more drug companies have medicinal syrup licenses revoked
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).
Society 3 years ago
BPOM suspends licences of two more drug firms amid probe into child deaths
Indonesia temporarily banned sales of some syrup-based medications in October after it identified the presence in some products of ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol as possible factors for causing the illness.
Society 3 years ago
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Police mull over criminal case against companies in AKI deaths
The National Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) is considering criminal charges against two pharmaceutical companies for producing toxic medicines that have caused a spike in acute kidney injury (AKI) cases.
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