Exclusive: India allows cough syrup firm linked to Uzbek deaths to re-open factory
INDIA'S Uttar Pradesh state has permitted the resumption of most production at a factory owned by Marion Biotech, whose cough syrups Uzbekistan linked to the deaths of 65 children last year, according to an order seen by Reuters. Marion is among three Indian companies whose cough syrups the World Health Organization (WHO) and other agencies have linked to the deaths of 141 children in Uzbekistan, Gambia and Cameroon since the middle of last year, in one of the world's worst such waves of poisoning. "There's no known case of a lack of quality in other medicines manufactured by the firm," the drug controller of…
