It comes barely five months after India lost over 20 children in Madhya Pradesh last year due to contaminated cough syrups. In liquid medicines such as syrups, a solvent plays a central role in making the drug usable and reliable. In Nigeria in 1990, contaminated paracetamol syrup caused 47 child deaths, followed by another outbreak in 2008 that resulted in 84 child deaths. In Haiti in 1996, contaminated acetaminophen syrups led to around 88 child deaths. More recently, in 2022 and 2023, Indian-manufactured cough syrups containing DEG were linked to child deaths in several countries abroad.

Source: The Hindu February 08, 2026 02:40 UTC