{"id":236250,"date":"2023-04-05T20:22:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=236250"},"modified":"2023-04-05T20:22:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:52:33","slug":"india-seeks-information-from-usfda-cdc-on-alleged-contamination-of-eye-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-seeks-information-from-usfda-cdc-on-alleged-contamination-of-eye-drops\/","title":{"rendered":"India seeks information from USFDA\/CDC on alleged contamination of eye drops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cIndia seeks information from USFDA\/CDC on alleged contamination of eye drops\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on <b>5th April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Drugs Controller General of India(DCGI) has written to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) seeking details on the alleged contamination of eye drops imported from India.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What was the issue about?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) has recently said that three deaths, eight cases of vision loss and four cases of removal of eyeballs could be due to the use of an over-the-counter eye drop manufactured by a Chennai-based pharmaceutical firm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has cautioned that patients should stop using the eye drops pending additional information and guidance.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What was India\u2019s response to this?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Health in India conducted an investigation in which samples of eye drops were found according to the standards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How do these incidents impact India\u2019s image as a pharmaceutical hub?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These incidents raise questions about India&#8217;s credibility as a pharmaceutical hub.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is not the first case. Earlier, WHO had raised questions regarding the cough syrup made in India. WHO had blamed the cough syrup for the death of 66 children in the African country Gambia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia seeks information from USFDA\/CDC on alleged contamination of eye drops\u201d published in The Hindu on 5th April 2023 What is the News? The Drugs Controller General of India(DCGI) has written to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) seeking details on the alleged contamination of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-seeks-information-from-usfda-cdc-on-alleged-contamination-of-eye-drops\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India seeks information from USFDA\/CDC on alleged contamination of eye drops<\/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-236250","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\/236250","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=236250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}