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Cough syrup deaths and other drug safety cases
Contaminated syrups, fake injections and failed batches that led to deaths, bans or WHO alerts. Each case has a timeline, the orders that followed and its status today.
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Coldrif cough syrup (Sresan Pharmaceuticals)
Coldrif, a paediatric cough syrup made by Sresan Pharmaceuticals of Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu, was found in October 2025 to...
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Sresan Pharmaceuticals (Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu)
Sresan Pharmaceuticals, a small manufacturer in Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu, produced Coldrif cough syrup, batch SR-13 of which...
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Medikof-D cough syrup (Indian Drug Vision Co.)
Medikof-D is a cough syrup manufactured by Indian Drug Vision Co. in Uttarakhand. On 23 January 2026 the Puducherry drugs...
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Rednex Pharmaceuticals (Ahmedabad, Gujarat)
Rednex Pharmaceuticals is the Ahmedabad manufacturer identified in WHO Medical Product Alert N°5/2025 as the maker of...
Read the case Respifresh TR cough syrup (Rednex Pharmaceuticals)
Respifresh TR (also written Respi Fresh) is a cough syrup labelled as made by Rednex Pharmaceuticals, Ahmedabad, that tested...
Read the case ReLife cough syrup (Shape Pharma)
ReLife is a cough syrup made by Shape Pharma in Gujarat that was found contaminated with diethylene glycol during the October...
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Shape Pharma is the Gujarat manufacturer identified in WHO Medical Product Alert N°5/2025 as the maker of ReLife, one of three...
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Kayson Pharma (Jaipur, Rajasthan)
Kayson Pharma, a Jaipur manufacturer supplying Rajasthan's free-medicine scheme, was at the centre of the second strand of the...
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Riemann Labs (Indore, Madhya Pradesh): Naturcold
Naturcold, a cough-and-cold syrup labelled as made by 'Fraken International (England)', a company that does not appear to...
Read the case QP Pharmachem (Punjab): Guaifenesin Syrup TG
QP Pharmachem, a manufacturer in Punjab, made Guaifenesin Syrup TG, marketed by Trillium Pharma of Haryana, which was found to...
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Marion Biotech (Noida, Uttar Pradesh)
Marion Biotech, a Noida manufacturer, made Ambronol syrup and DOK-1 Max syrup and tablets, which the Uzbek health ministry...
Read the case Maiden Pharmaceuticals (Sonipat, Haryana)
Maiden Pharmaceuticals of Sonipat, Haryana, made four paediatric syrups. Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough...
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