Tag: syrups
Gambia: opening of a historic trial on syrups which would have caused the death of 70 children
An unprecedented trial opened on Monday, July 17, in The Gambia. The Ministry of Health and the National Medicines Regulatory Authority are in the box of the accused, after a…
Syrups against dry cough permanently withdrawn from the market in France
As of April 5, 2023, marketing authorizations for syrups containing pholcodine are definitively withdrawn in France due to a risk of a serious allergic reaction. Names and instructions. Summary After…
Health, WHO puts two potentially deadly syrups under investigation
(Tiper Stock Exchange) – The alert of the World Health Organization is triggered for some syrups against cough, cold and fluwhich they would cause serious damage to health in children.…
4 cough syrups now banned in France
News Published on 02/09/2022 at 2:05 p.m. Updated 09/09/2022 at 09:58 Reading 2 mins. On September 8, 2022, the National Medicines Safety Agency suspended the marketing authorizations (AMM) for pholcodine-based…
Withdrawal of pholcodine syrups: list, what to do?
The marketing authorizations for pholcodine-based syrups (Biocalyptol, etc.) are suspended from September 8, 2022, as a precaution and pending a European reassessment on the risk of allergic cross-reaction with the…
Pholcodine-based syrups soon to be withdrawn from the market?
The ANSM plans to suspend marketing authorizations for pholcodine-based cough syrups because of a risk of serious allergy to muscle relaxants, used in the event of anesthesia. A new study…