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The Centre has recommended that the manufacturing license of Uttar Pradesh-based Marion biotech be cancelled after a majority of tested samples were found to have been adulterated with ethylene glycol..
Centre recommends the State Drug Controller Authority to cancel manufacturing license of Marion biotech after 22 out of 36 samples taken for testing from it were found adulterated with Ethylene glycol," news agency ANI quoted the Gautam Budh Nagar Drug inspector as stating..
According to a recent Reuters report quoting an inspector involved in the Marion probe, the tested samples had been adulterated with ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol - the toxins that the WHO says were found in the products sold by the two companies in the two countries..
The Indian administration has however pushed back against allegations that cough syrup made by another Indian company - Maiden Pharmaceuticals - led to the deaths of children in Gambia last year..
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