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WHO: Weak Regulation Causing Deaths Due to Contaminated Medicines
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WHO: Weak regulation causing deaths due to contaminated medicines
NEW YORK: The World Health Organisation (WHO) said today systemic weaknesses in the oversight of the global pharmaceutical supply chain have resulted in medicines formulated with poisonous chemicals claiming lives and compromising the health of patients, mainly children. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd
In the past 90 years, as many as 1,300 deaths have been documented in at least 25 cases of drug contamination. In the last 90 years, as many as 1,300 deaths have been documented in at least 25 cases of drug contamination with diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol, but only in the last three years have there been up to seven such incidents, alerting a report by the World Health Organization (WHO), which calls for greater global attention to this …
This is a “persistent and preventable threat,” conclude the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in their joint report. Over the past 90 years, at least 25 documented incidents of excipient contamination have resulted in more than 1,300 deaths worldwide, including […]
Geneva. Over the past 90 years, as many as 1,300 deaths have been documented in at least 25 cases of contamination of medicines with diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol, but only in the last three years have there been up to seven such incidents, alerting a report of the World Health Organization (WHO), which calls for greater global attention to this phenomenon. The study published on Thursday, conducted with the collaboration of the United N…
WHO calls for urgent global action on contamination of medicines with toxic chemicals
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday called out the need for urgent regulatory action against contamination of medicines with industrial-grade toxic chemicals, posing severe health risks, especially among children.
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