{"id":54689,"date":"2023-04-27T22:25:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/27\/three-per-cent-of-drugs-taken-by-indians-substandard-inspections-reveal"},"modified":"2023-04-27T22:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:25:23","slug":"indian-study-reveals-about-3-of-drugs-substandard-amid-official-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54689","title":{"rendered":"Indian study reveals about 3% of drugs \u2018substandard\u2019 amid official crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In wake of children\u2019s cough syrup scandal, an expert says regulatory system is \u2018grossly understaffed and underfunctional\u2019<\/p>\n<p>About 3% of drugs routinely taken by Indians for ailments such as hypertension, bacterial infections and allergies are \u201csubstandard\u201d, according to a study of samples taken from factories by government inspectors.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have been carrying out random checks on factories after a scandal over Indian-made cough syrups linked to the deaths of children, mostly in countries in Africa.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/27\/three-per-cent-of-drugs-taken-by-indians-substandard-inspections-reveal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In wake of children\u2019s cough syrup scandal, an expert says regulatory system is \u2018grossly understaffed and underfunctional\u2019About 3% of drugs routinely taken by Indians for ailments such as hypertension, bacterial infections and allergies are \u201csubstandard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[372,59,566,62,647,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-india","category-pharmaceuticals-industry","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54690,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54689\/revisions\/54690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}