In wake of last year’s children’s cough syrup scandal, an expert says regulatory system is ‘grossly understaffed and underfunctional’
About 3% of drugs routinely taken by Indians for ailments such as hypertension, bacterial infections and allergies are “substandard”, according to a study of samples taken from factories by government inspectors.
Officials have been carrying out random checks on factories after a scandal over Indian-made cough syrups linked to the deaths of children, mostly in countries in Africa.
