NEW DELHI: An unnamed middleman in Mumbai provided a crucial raw material used in India-made cough syrups that have been linked to the deaths of more than 70 children in Gambia, a chemicals trader involved in the supply chain told Reuters.
Sharad Goel, whose eponymously named company is based in north Delhi, said he had bought the ingredient in sealed barrels – but not directly from SKC. Goel subsequently stopped answering calls and when a reporter called at his business twice in April, it was locked. Workers at a neighbouring factory said they had not seen it opening in the past few months.If true, Goel's claim would point to a missing link in investigations by Gambia, India and the WHO into the contaminated products. The clue comes as the WHO and Gambia's government say the search for a culprit has been stymied by a lack of information from India.
India's regulator said its information on the raw materials came from certificates of analysis – standard paperwork used to track each ingredient in a drug supply chain. Maiden said last October that it had obtained raw materials from"certified and reputed companies." The WHO'S Kuwana told Reuters his agency is still intent on finding out what happened with Maiden's products. The WHO is also trying to find out more about the supply chains of two other Indian drugmakers who produced contaminated cough syrups sold in Uzbekistan and the Marshall Islands and Micronesia, according to alerts published by the agency. Both companies deny wrongdoing; Indian police arrested three employees of one of them in March.
Four industry and regulatory experts told Reuters this means that there could be no reliable record of where the ingredients came from.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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