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  Not so fast ...
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  According to the WHO, the cough syrups contained "unacceptable" amounts of diethylene glycol and /or ethylene glycol as contaminants. "Levels varied for specific details of laboratory tests," it added.
  
  Ethylene Glycol.
  Diethylene Glycol.
  Anti-Freeze. They made kids drink anti-freeze. >
  
  It’s a Republicans wet dream. No regulations. If your product is killing people then you’ll just go out of business because people stop buying your product. >
  
  why do americans have to bring their shit politics into everything, it’s not even relevant >
  
  Exactly. Not everything in the world revolves around your republican/ democrat bullshit. Tired of seeing those comments everywhere on every comment. >
  
  American here and I agree.  Its exhausting. >
  
  You don't understand America regulated this in the US after the exact same thing happened almost 100 years ago? 
  It's not complicated, it's just fools whose brains are incapable of connecting dots from point a to point b. >
  
  So what the fuck does India doing it now have to do with the us politics.
  It’s idiots who only care about themselves and their political leanings to get internet points who make us political comments on topics that have nothing to do with it. >
  
  Republicans love spouting free market principles... no regulations because the people are smart. This is what a lack of regulation nets you. Bodies. Still obtusely pretending this isn't conservative rhetoric 101 or that you are tired of politics, doesn't make you moderate... It makes you stupid. >
  
  This is India, not the US. >
  
  Yep, and 90 years ago....that was the US. Then, we regulated our corporations. So someone highlighting that fact, then highlighting Republicans rhetoric, leads one to conclude they are fine with this outcome. Which we know they are. Just giving more examples of how coded racism masked as idealism, leads to these outcomes. >
  
  The countries this happened in are Gambia, Indonesia and Uzbekistan. There are four additional countries where this cough syrup might have been sold: Cambodia, the Philippines, East Timor and Senegal. This has been going on since JULY 2022. >
  
  Long story short:
  
  So far it said that across the three countries where this issue has been reported since August 2022
  
  The poorer nations (Gambia, Uzbekistan and Indonesia) bought the cheaper, unregulated ones from a couple of Indian companies (Marion Biotech and Maiden Pharmaceuticals) and the children died because of it. 
  WHO also issued a warning last year for cough syrups made by four Indonesian manufacturers, PT Yarindo Farmatama, PT Universal Pharmaceutical, PT Konimex and PT AFI Pharma, that were sold domestically. >
  
  How can they sell "unregulated" medicine regardless of price? >
  
  You just said it... its unregulated so they can do whatever they want. This is the "free" part of free market. You get punished for bad outcomes after the fact... but the kids are already dead.
  Or you have a government regulate before the kids die. But government regulation is "evil" nowdays since conservatives would rather kill kids for profit. >
  
  
  You get punished for bad outcomes after the fact
  
  Do you? From what I've seen, you only really get punished if you fuck up super bad and it's clearly and explicitly your fault. If you only fuck up kind of bad, or you can blame someone else (the distributors, here), then a few 'free market' bribes to the investigators and you're good to go. >
  
  It happens frequently enough in developing countries to be a wiki article. >
  
  Indian lean hits hard >
  
  it's orange drank - mango lassi w cough syrup >
  
  the FDA was notified, so it already existed. ketchup I believe was what created the FDA >
  
  Oh god that website is horrible. Just horrible. >
  
  Damn... i hope the right ones will "pay" for this... >
  
  Just lol, in a country ripe with corruption.. yeah, right. >
  
  We are not so ripe with corruption. Also the state has already made investigations and arrests. >
  
  Lol >
  
  I am imagining an Indian minister frantically pacing back and forth in the emergency room as the bodies start to pile up. Not out of concern for the children, but desperately trying to come up with a story to blame Pakistan, before the journalists show up. >
  
  Didn't China do the same thing a few years back?
  Replaced baby formula milk with melamine...
  Fuckers fed kids magic erasers. >
  
  +1 phobia for me. >
  
  If you don’t live in Gambia, Indonesia or Uzbekistan you should be fine.