{"id":236009,"date":"2023-04-04T19:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T13:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=236009"},"modified":"2023-04-04T19:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T13:52:24","slug":"cdc-concerned-about-drug-resistant-bacteria-strain-allegedly-linked-to-eye-drops-imported-from-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cdc-concerned-about-drug-resistant-bacteria-strain-allegedly-linked-to-eye-drops-imported-from-india\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC concerned about drug-resistant bacteria strain allegedly linked to eye-drops imported from India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The post is based on the article \u201c<\/span><b>CDC concerned about drug-resistant bacteria strain allegedly linked to eye-drops imported from India\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 4th April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Centers for Disease Control(CDC) has warned people to stop using \u201cartificial tear\u201d eye drops sold by EzriCare.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are EzriCare Eye Drops?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The eye-drops were manufactured by Chennai-based Global Pharma Healthcare and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">distributed in the U.S. market by EzriCare and Delsam Pharma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CDC has found an \u201cextensively\u201d antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria in multiple open containers of eye drops.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, CDC has cautioned that patients should stop using the eye-drops pending additional\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Information and guidance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, World Health Organisation(WHO) issued two medical product <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">alerts on cough syrups manufactured in India which were exported to Gambia and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uzbekistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How are the medicines exported from India?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers in its response to a question on the export of \u201csubstandard medicines\u201d said that manufacturers were required to obtain a license for manufacturing of drugs for export from the concerned State Licensing Authority (SLA) under the provisions of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act,1940 and the rules made thereunder.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further, all manufacturers were required to meet the requirements of the importing country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cCDC concerned about drug-resistant bacteria strain allegedly linked to eye-drops imported from India\u201d published in The Hindu on 4th April 2023 What is the News? The Centers for Disease Control(CDC) has warned people to stop using \u201cartificial tear\u201d eye drops sold by EzriCare. What are EzriCare Eye&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cdc-concerned-about-drug-resistant-bacteria-strain-allegedly-linked-to-eye-drops-imported-from-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CDC concerned about drug-resistant bacteria strain allegedly linked to eye-drops imported from India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-236009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}