Tough regulatory rules likely for sale of codeine-based cough syrups after MPs raise concerns
2 years, 8 months ago

Tough regulatory rules likely for sale of codeine-based cough syrups after MPs raise concerns

Firstpost  

Several MPs have demanded the prohibition for the sale of codeine-based cough syrups, which they claim are being used by youngsters for recreational purpose New Delhi: The government is reviewing the policy to ban manufacturing and sale of codeine-based cough syrups after several MPs raised concerns that they are being used as narcotic drugs than as medicine. However, a holistic approach will be adopted.” While discussions to ban codeine-based cough syrups have taken place frequently in the last few years starting 2015, nothing concrete has been decided so far. The Narcotics Control Bureau in 2017 had asked the DCGI to “substantially reduce” the availability of codeine-based cough syrups saying they are being used as narcotic drugs. According to the copy of complaint, several MPs including Ajay Pratap Singh, Dr Kanimozhi, Dr V Sivadasan and Elamaram Kareem, Fauzia Khan and Amar Patnaik have demanded prohibition on the sale of codeine-based cough syrups.

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DCGI seeks post-market surveillance data on 2 combination drugs within 3 months
1 month ago

DCGI seeks post-market surveillance data on 2 combination drugs within 3 months

Live Mint  

Drugs Controller General of India has sought active post-market surveillance data from the drugmakers of two fixed-dose combination medicines—Imipramine Hydrochloride IP + Diazepam IP tablets used to ease co-morbid anxiety conditions, and Chlorphenamine Maleate IP + Ammonia Chloride IP + Sodium Citrate IP syrup used to relieve cough and respiratory distress. “Manufacturers who are already holding licences from State Licensing …

DCGI issues alert for Pholcodine containing cough syrups; asks doctors to prescribe alternative medicines
1 year, 8 months ago

DCGI issues alert for Pholcodine containing cough syrups; asks doctors to prescribe alternative medicines

Hindustan Times  

The Drugs Controller General of India has issued an alert for Pholcodine containing cough and cold remedies and advised doctors and patients to stop consuming any drug containing the chemical. DCGI has asked doctors to advise patients to stop taking pholcodine containing cough syrups and cold remedies and suggest an alternative to treat their symptoms. The statement by DCGI noted …

Cough syrups could be made prescription-only over addiction fears
1 year, 8 months ago

Cough syrups could be made prescription-only over addiction fears

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Concerns codeine-based cough syrup could be addictive and have serious health …

The lowdown on ‘substandard’ cough syrups
1 year, 9 months ago

The lowdown on ‘substandard’ cough syrups

The Hindu  

The World Health Organisation has claimed that 300 children have died so far since August 2022, across three countries, due to substandard cough syrups made in India. India’s Drugs Controller General has since made it mandatory to test cough syrups, by specified labs, before they are exported. Shailaja Mane, head, Department of Paediatrics, DPU Private Super Speciality Hospital, Pune, says …

Grilinctus, Tedykoff LX, Codistar, Other Cocktail Drugs to be Taken Off Shelves; Industry to Estimate Impact
1 year, 9 months ago

Grilinctus, Tedykoff LX, Codistar, Other Cocktail Drugs to be Taken Off Shelves; Industry to Estimate Impact

News 18  

Fixed-dose combination medicines such as Dialex DC, Grilinctus, Codistar, Tedykoff LX and other cocktail cough syrups will be taken off the shelves after the central government banned them recently. While the industry is still evaluating the effect of the ban in terms of the number of brands impacted and their market value, top pharma companies including Dr Reddy’s, Intas Pharma, …

Government bans 14 combination drugs used to treat common ailments
1 year, 9 months ago

Government bans 14 combination drugs used to treat common ailments

The Hindu  

Fourteen fixed-dose combination medicines found to lack therapeutic relevance have been banned by the Central Government through a gazette notification issued over the weekend. The notification states that an expert committee recommended that “there is no therapeutic justification for these FDCs and the FDCs may involve risk to human beings”. The banned FDCs are part of 344 fixed-dose combinations prohibited …

Test cough syrups meant for exports on priority: DCGI
1 year, 10 months ago

Test cough syrups meant for exports on priority: DCGI

Hindustan Times  

The Drugs Controller General of India on Wednesday directed state drugs regulators and government laboratories to test cough syrup samples meant for exports “on top priority” and issue reports at the earliest, according to people familiar with the matter. “The state drugs controllers are hereby requested to give instructions to your state owned NABL laboratories to analyse the samples received …

Drugs Controller Told to Filter Out ‘Cocktail Drugs’ from Indian Market, Ban Likely Soon
1 year, 11 months ago

Drugs Controller Told to Filter Out ‘Cocktail Drugs’ from Indian Market, Ban Likely Soon

News 18  

The central government has told the country’s apex drugs controller to regulate the market of fixed-dose combination drugs in India – an issue pending for several months now. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation, the office of the Drugs Controller General of India, has already started working on this and the ban on these “cocktail drugs” may be announced within …

Gambia parliament recommends suing of Indian manufacturer of cough syrups
2 years, 3 months ago

Gambia parliament recommends suing of Indian manufacturer of cough syrups

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Maiden Pharmaceuticals should be banned and authorities take tough …

Why should that codeine-containing cough syrup on your table be banned?
2 years, 4 months ago

Why should that codeine-containing cough syrup on your table be banned?

India Today  

Winters - The season for almost every person going through bouts of dry cough is knocking at our doors and so is the insane scramble at chemist shops for those over-the-counter cough syrups. In March 2016, Haryana's food and drugs administration department booked two drug wholesalers for smuggling two lakh bottles of a popular cough syrup sold by a multinational …

None of four cough syrups linked to death of 66 children in Gambia available for sale in India, say distributors
2 years, 5 months ago

None of four cough syrups linked to death of 66 children in Gambia available for sale in India, say distributors

The Hindu  

None of the four cough syrups — Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Cough Syrup and Magrip N Cold Syrup — being linked to the death of 66 children in the Gambia is available for sale in India, said the All India Organisation of Chemists and Distributors. “Maiden Pharmaceutical Limited has no presence in the Indian domestic …

Panel Under Drug Regulator to Meet Soon to Decide Ban on Cocktail Meds, Codeine-based Cough Syrups
2 years, 6 months ago

Panel Under Drug Regulator to Meet Soon to Decide Ban on Cocktail Meds, Codeine-based Cough Syrups

News 18  

The apex panel under the drug regulatory body of India is set to decide the fate of cocktail medicines, including codeine-based cough syrups soon, News18.com has learnt. “The DTAB committee is slated to meet coming Monday to start deliberations over the FDC medicines, including codeine-based formulations,” the government official privy to the development told News18.com. The DCGI has been asked …

Banning Cocktail Drugs, Codeine-Based Syrups -- Tasks DCGI Told to Finish as Govt Extends His Tenure
2 years, 7 months ago

Banning Cocktail Drugs, Codeine-Based Syrups -- Tasks DCGI Told to Finish as Govt Extends His Tenure

News 18  

With two major tasks at hand, the Centre has extended the tenure of Drug Controller General of India VG Somani by three months, News18 has learnt. In a formal, congratulatory call given by the top official of the health ministry, Somani has been asked to complete two projects in the coming months — banning irrational cocktail drugs and codeine-based medicines …

Explained: Why the Centre is planning to ban some Codeine-based syrups
2 years, 7 months ago

Explained: Why the Centre is planning to ban some Codeine-based syrups

Firstpost  

Codeine is an opioid medication that doctors may use to treat pain. It is used in cough syrups and has mild pain-relieving properties, but it is a powerful drug that one can get addicted to The Centre is planning to ban select preparations to prevent misuse of Codeine-based medicine in India, as per News18. The Codeine with triprolidine preparation is …

Modi Govt to Pull 3 Types of Codeine-based Syrups Off the Shelf After MPs Raise Concerns
2 years, 7 months ago

Modi Govt to Pull 3 Types of Codeine-based Syrups Off the Shelf After MPs Raise Concerns

News 18  

To prevent the misuse of codeine-based medicines in India, the Modi government is planning to ban select preparations, News18.com learnt. On July 20, News18 had first reported that the government is reviewing the policy to ban the manufacturing and sale of codeine-based cough syrups after several parliamentarians raised concerns that they are being used as narcotic drugs than as a …

Sale of Codeine-Based Cough Syrups May Go Through Tough Regulatory Rules After MPs Raise Concerns
2 years, 8 months ago

Sale of Codeine-Based Cough Syrups May Go Through Tough Regulatory Rules After MPs Raise Concerns

News 18  

The government is reviewing the policy to ban manufacturing and sale of codeine-based cough syrups after several MPs raised concerns that they are being used as narcotic drugs than as medicine. However, a holistic approach will be adopted.” While discussions to ban codeine-based cough syrups have taken place frequently in the last few years starting 2015, nothing concrete has been …

Reduce supply of codeine-based cough syrups, Narcotics body tells DCGI
7 years, 6 months ago

Reduce supply of codeine-based cough syrups, Narcotics body tells DCGI

Live Mint  

In a setback for pharmaceutical companies, the Narcotics Control Bureau has asked the Drug Controller General of India to “substantially reduce” the availability of codeine-based cough syrups and tramadol preparations, saying they are being used as narcotic drugs. The NCB had earlier this year seized pharmaceutical formulations such as codeine-based cough syrups like Phensedyl and Corex and tramadol preparations such …

Don't Give Kids Cough Syrup Or Pain Meds That Contain Codeine, FDA Says
7 years, 11 months ago

Don't Give Kids Cough Syrup Or Pain Meds That Contain Codeine, FDA Says

NPR  

Don't Give Kids Cough Syrup Or Pain Meds That Contain Codeine, FDA Says Enlarge this image toggle caption Sujata Jana / EyeEm/Getty Images Sujata Jana / EyeEm/Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration says children under 12 should not be given prescription medicines that contain codeine or another narcotic, tramadol, and that such drugs can also be dangerous to youth …

Pfizer to relaunch Corex in new formulation
8 years, 3 months ago

Pfizer to relaunch Corex in new formulation

Live Mint  

Hyderabad: Pfizer Ltd, Indian subsidiary of US-based drug maker Pfizer Inc., on Tuesday said it has decided to discontinue its popular cough syrup Corex in the present form, though it will retain the brand name for its future respiratory products. The company said it has decided to stop making the current Corex cough syrup formulation which is a combination of …

Lifting ban on FDC drugs against patients' safety: Centre
9 years ago

Lifting ban on FDC drugs against patients' safety: Centre

India TV News  

New Delhi: The government on Monday sought vacation of Delhi High Court's interim order staying the ban on some fixed dose combinations medicines, saying it would be "against public interest and patient safety" and alleging that the drug firms' sole objective was to make profits. The submission was made by the government in an affidavit filed before Justice Rajiv Sahai …

Delhi HC stays government ban on sale of Pfizer’s Corex cough syrup
9 years ago

Delhi HC stays government ban on sale of Pfizer’s Corex cough syrup

India TV News  

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today granted US-based pharmaceutical major Pfizer a stay on the government ban on its popular codeine-based cough syrup Corex. The ban was part of a larger notice by the government prohibiting sale, manufacture and distribution of 344 combination drugs over concerns related to safety and efficacy. Both Pfizer and Abbott India are likely to …

High Court stays ban on Pfizer’s Corex syrup sale
9 years ago

High Court stays ban on Pfizer’s Corex syrup sale

Live Mint  

New Delhi: In a major relief to US pharmaceutical Pfizer Inc.’s India unit, the Delhi high court on Monday granted a stay on a government ban on its cough syrup Corex. “The notification was issued by the government without any inquiry or show-cause notice to them, with complete disregard to the fact that we have been marketing the drugs in …

Medications with codeine should be prescription-only, TGA says in interim report recommendation
9 years, 5 months ago

Medications with codeine should be prescription-only, TGA says in interim report recommendation

ABC  

Patients using codeine-based painkillers or cough suppressants will soon need a prescription from their doctor, if the recommendations of an interim report are put in place. The interim report from its Advisory Committee on Medicines Scheduling recommends making codeine-based products prescription only from June next year. Key points: Interim TGA report recommends making medication with codeine available only to patients …

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