Coldrif tragedy: Inside India's recurring cough syrup poisonings | LME 95 | Pooja Prasanna

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Pharmaceutical companies have always bought political influence.
55% : Five years later, the owners are still out on bail, and the case drags on. DEG-related deaths in India go back even further -- at least to 1972, when 15 children in Chennai died Deaths are dismissed as coincidence, governments deny contamination, action comes only after outside labs confirm it -- then arrests, bail, and business as usual.
45% : Watch my colleague Shabbir's ground report from Kanchipuram to understand how the pharmaceutical company was allowed to function out of a dilapidated building for years without any supervision.
45% : When companies that make unsafe medicines can also buy political influence, it's no wonder the system protects profits over children.
26% : That disaster led to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which - does not completely ban DEG but severely restricts its use.

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