The Manipur authorities on Friday (October 10, 2025) banned two manufacturers of cough syrup that had been discovered to include “extremely poisonous chemical substances”. |Picture courtesy: Getty Photographs/iStockphoto
The Manipur authorities on Friday (October 10, 2025) banned two manufacturers of cough syrup that had been discovered to include “extremely poisonous chemical substances”.
The Narcotics Management Bureau has banned the sale and consumption of those two merchandise in Manipur and directed all retailers, distributors and pharmacies to right away take away the affected batches from their cabinets and report on their compliance standing.
In a press release, the Narcotics Management Bureau beneath the Directorate Common of Well being Providers issued a “public warning warning customers, retailers and healthcare staff in opposition to the acquisition and use of two cough syrup manufacturers discovered to be adulterated with diethylene glycol, a extremely poisonous chemical.”
The newspaper mentioned a report from the Madhya Pradesh authorities drug testing laboratory confirmed that Relife and RecipFresh TR syrups, each made in Gujarat, had been contaminated with diethylene glycol, a poisonous industrial solvent recognized to trigger acute poisoning, kidney failure and even loss of life.
Surveillance has been stepped up throughout medical shops and hospitals throughout the state to stop additional distribution of the 2 kinds of cough syrup.
Well being care suppliers are suggested to look at for signs of diethylene glycol poisoning in sufferers who might have ingested the syrup, the assertion mentioned.
