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24 kids die after taking paracetamol [1]

A private pharmaceutical firm in Bangladesh was ordered to be sealed after 24 children died on consuming paracetamol suspension, an official said.

The drug administration ordered the firm to suspend manufacturing and marketing of their products including vitamin and paracetamol suspension, New Age said Thursday.

The government ordered a seven-member committee to probe the cause of deaths.

Publication Date: 
23/07/2009
Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) [2]
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Health [3], Preventive Medicine [4], Drugs [5], Drug Industry [6], Sri Lanka [7]
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