Gambia cough syrup deaths: 462 medicine samples declared spurious during 2019–21
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While the authorities have swung into action and ordered a detailed investigation into the cough syrups produced and exported to Gambia by an Indian company, government data revealed that 384 persons were arrested after 462 samples of medicines were declared adulterated or spurious during 2019-21. A total of 81,329 drug samples were tested in 2019-20 out of which 2497 samples were declared as not being of standard quality.