The PPB, the Pharmacies and Poisons Board, the Kenyan medicines authority, announced this on Thursday. The drug in question is pediatric Benylin from the Johnson & Johnson laboratory. The Kenyan Pharmacies and Poisons Board suspects this batch of being adulterated.
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With our correspondent in Nairobi, Gaëlle Laleix
“ If you have a bottle of Benylin, manufactured in May 2021 and perishable in April 2024, do not consume this product. And return it to a point of sale “. This is the message that the Kenyan medicines authority has been broadcasting since Thursday.
The alert was given to him by NAFDAC, the Nigerian Food and Drug Control Agency. The day before, the Nigerian regulator announced the recall of Benylin syrup which it suspects of containing diethylene glycol. This chemical product, colorless and odorless, is used, for example, in the manufacture of industrial gel, brake fluid or cigarettes. He is involved in several health scandals having killed dozens of children in Gambia, Cameroon and even Uzbekistan.
As a result, the PPB opened an investigation. The Kenyan medicines authority announces that it is testing a large number of bottles from the incriminated batch and asks all consumers to be extremely vigilant.
Pediatric Benylin is produced in South Africa by Kenvue, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. For the moment the laboratory does not wish to express itself.