The Telangana Drugs Control Administration’s stop-use notice on a paediatric syrup contaminated with ethylene glycol should not be framed as an isolated quality lapse. It is better understood as a stress test the system failed — again.
Ethylene glycol contamination is not novel, obscure, or technically hard to detect. Its toxicology is well known. Its detection is routine. When it appears in a medicine meant for children, the failure is not scientific — it is regulatory.
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