Indonesian court situation highlights contaminants that resulted in more than 200 fatalities.
18 October 2023 at 20: 18 PUBLISHED
According to the Food and Drug Administration( FDA ), unlike in Indonesia, the country’s syrup medications for children have not been found to contain any deadly contamination.
According to Dr. Narong Aphikulvanich, acting FDA secretary-general, the agency has not discovered any contamination with toxic diethylene glycol ( DEG ) or ethylene glucose( EG ), in medications sold in the nation.
He was speaking in response on Wednesday to a court case that is still pending in Indonesia against the producers of toxin-tainted cough sugar drugs that killed more than 200 kids the previous month.
According to Dr. Narong, the cases in Indonesia were caused by the deliberate use of the toxins to taint the propylene glycol used by pharmaceutical companies in India and Indonesia to make sugar medications.
He added that the FDA did no locate any locally produced goods made by Afi Farma, the Indian pharmaceutical company named in the legal actions.
The FDA has examined children’s sugar drugs imported from India and Indonesia over the past year, and it has not detected any contamination with DEG or EG. According to Dr. Narong, the picking and evaluation would go on for the sake of public safety.