Uzbekistan cough syrup deaths: Three staff of Noida-based pharma agency arrested
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NOIDA: The Noida Police on Friday arrested three staff of a city-based pharmaceutical agency whose cough syrup is alleged to have led to the deaths of 18 kids in Uzbekistan final yr, officers stated.
The arrests come after an FIR was lodged late Thursday night time in opposition to 5 officers of Marion Biotech, together with two of its administrators, over a grievance by a medication inspector of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), they stated.
The central and Uttar Pradesh state drug authorities had checked samples of Marion Biotech’s medication and located 22 of them to be “not of standard quality” (adulterated and spurious), in keeping with the complainant drug inspector.
“Three persons named in the FIR have been arrested, while the two directors of the company are at large. Those arrested are Tuhin Bhattacharya, Head Operation; Atul Rawat, Manufacturing Chemist; and Mool Singh, Analytical Chemist,” Phase 3 police station in-charge Vijay Kumar advised PTI.
Marion Biotech, which has its workplace in Sector 67 right here, had come underneath the scanner in December final yr for its cough syrup Dok-1 that’s suspected to have led to the loss of life of 18 kids who consumed it in Uzbekistan after which the CDSCO launched a probe into the matter.
NOIDA: The Noida Police on Friday arrested three staff of a city-based pharmaceutical agency whose cough syrup is alleged to have led to the deaths of 18 kids in Uzbekistan final yr, officers stated.
The arrests come after an FIR was lodged late Thursday night time in opposition to 5 officers of Marion Biotech, together with two of its administrators, over a grievance by a medication inspector of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), they stated.
The central and Uttar Pradesh state drug authorities had checked samples of Marion Biotech’s medication and located 22 of them to be “not of standard quality” (adulterated and spurious), in keeping with the complainant drug inspector.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“Three persons named in the FIR have been arrested, while the two directors of the company are at large. Those arrested are Tuhin Bhattacharya, Head Operation; Atul Rawat, Manufacturing Chemist; and Mool Singh, Analytical Chemist,” Phase 3 police station in-charge Vijay Kumar advised PTI.
Marion Biotech, which has its workplace in Sector 67 right here, had come underneath the scanner in December final yr for its cough syrup Dok-1 that’s suspected to have led to the loss of life of 18 kids who consumed it in Uzbekistan after which the CDSCO launched a probe into the matter.
