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Bad Drugs, Fatal Kidney Injury

Monday, October 31, 2022

BPOM is criticized for its slow investigation into the ingredients of syrup medicines responsible for acute kidney injury. Some see the agency as protecting the pharmaceutical industry.

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A pharmacist inspects a stock of Termorex and Unibebi Cough Syrup medicines indicated to contain ethylene glicol and diethylene glicol above the safe limit, to be withdrawn from circulation and returned to their distributor at Samudra Farama Pharmacy, Purwokerto, Central Java, October 21. ANTARA FOTO/Idhad Zakaria . tempo : 176863454528.

WHEN leaders of the Indonesian Pharmaceutical Companies Association (GP Farmasi) met with Chair of the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM), Penny Kusumastuti Lukito, at her office on Sunday afternoon, October 23, they discussed five syrup medicine brands that had been tied to acute kidney injury cases. During the meeting at the BPOM office, GP Farmasi asked the agency to refrain from announcing said drugs.

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Hussein Abri Dongoran

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