Move is aimed at tackling issues linked to substandard and counterfeit medicines entering the West African nation Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW DELHI - Gambia will make it mandatory from July 1 for all pharmaceutical products from India to be inspected and tested before being shipped out of the country.The new rules highlight how governments are reassessing their reliance on India’s US$42 billion pharmaceutical industry since the contamination came to light last year.
Ms Kaira, in a letter to India’s drug controller-general Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi on June 15, said the MCA had appointed Quntrol Laboratories, an independent inspection and testing firm for pharmaceuticals in Mumbai, to issue a Clean Report of Inspection and Analysis report for all shipments from India.
“If conformity is established at all levels, Quntrol shall issue the mandatory CRIA document. If conformity is not established with regards to the quality of the product, the shipment will be quarantined or seized by the MCA and the necessary regulatory actions shall be taken.”has made tests mandatory for all cough syrups before they are exported.With 2.5 million people, Gambia is one of Africa’s smallest and poorest countries.
Last year, at least 70 children, most of them under the age of 5, died in Gambia due to acute kidney injury that doctors have linked to adulterated cough syrups from India.
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