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The agency is under pressure to tighten oversight of the $42 billion pharma industry, dominated by small manufacturers, after India-made cough syrups have been \u200ctied to the deaths of more than 140 children in Africa \u200band Central Asia since 2022, denting its reputation as the \u201cpharmacy of the world\u201d<\/p>\n

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The agency is under pressure to tighten oversight of the $42 billion pharma industry, dominated by small manufacturers, after India-made cough syrups have been \u200ctied to the deaths of more than 140 children in Africa \u200band Central Asia since 2022, denting its reputation as the \u201cpharmacy of the world\u201d Source: www.thehindu.com Medical Disclaimer: This content […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1747],"tags":[7994,12306,11049,10952,19400,19402,19401,11352,14170,15608],"class_list":["post-28852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness-lifestyle","tag-cough","tag-deaths","tag-drug","tag-indias","tag-inspected","tag-lapses","tag-makers","tag-official","tag-regulator","tag-syrup"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28854,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28852\/revisions\/28854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}