Few months after warning against India-made cough syrups in various nationst The WHO has again issued a global alert regarding an Indian-made cough syrup called Cold Out, which is being sold in Iraq. The medication was found to be contaminated with toxins. This is the fifth such warning being issued against an Indian manufacturer in the past 10 months.The alert warned that the substandard batch of the product is unsafe and its use, especially in children, may result in serious injury or death. The sample was found to contain unacceptable amounts of 0.25% of diethylene glycol and 2.1% of ethylene glycol as contaminants. The acceptable safety limit for both ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol is no more than 0.10%.Highlighting the risk, the WHO said that diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol are toxic to humans when consumed and can prove fatal. Toxic effects can include abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, inability to pass urine, headache, altered mental state and acute kidney injury which may lead to death. . WHO has also said that a sample of the Cold Out syrup was obtained from one location in Iraq and has been submitted for further laboratory analysis.

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