The Hindu Editorial Analysis : 24th May 2023

24/05/2023

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The Hindu Editorial Analysis

The Importance of Reading The Hindu Editorial: Reading The Hindu newspaper has several benefits, including improving reading skills, facilitating comprehension, staying informed of current events, enhancing essay writing, and more. For individuals aiming for a career in banking, reading editorials is crucial for vocabulary building. In this article, we will examine today’s editorials, provide practice questions, and highlight important vocabulary words.

Government approved labs.

The Centre has made it mandatory for Indian pharmaceutical firms to get export samples of cough syrups tested at government-approved labs before sending them abroad.
The government has issued a notification effective June 1-which also lists the names of labs where samples have to be tested. This includes the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission-Ghaziabad, Central Drugs Laboratory-Kolkata and Central Drugs Testing Laboratory- Chennai, among others.
The government decision follows medical product alerts issued by the World Health Organisation on alleged contamination of cough syrups exported to Gambia, Uzbekistan and the Marshall Islands and Micronesia by Indian pharma companies which led to morbidity and mortality.
“Our pharma products have to meet global standards. The standards for pharma products are being more stringent.” director general of foreign trade (DGFT) Santosh Sarangi said.
The Central Drug Standards Control Organisation CDSCO), which comes under the health ministry, submitted that syrup-based formulations of cough composition (cough syrups), because of insolubility of the drugs used, require solvents like propylene glycol and/or glycerine and/or sorbitol.
“There are adulterants commonly used with these solvents where mainly di- ethylene glycol and ethylene glycol are most common.
The adulterants are toxic to the kidney and cause deaths if used in high quantities,” the drug regulatory body said.
Exporters will have to produce the ‘Certificate of Analysis’ of the batch or batches being exported from one of the above labs along with other documentation for the release of the consignment for export, the CDSCO proposed.
Some cough syrups manufactured by medicine companies in India have come under scrutiny.
The government has rightly decided to test all cough syrups going abroad. It goes without saying that similar standards should also be applied to all cough syrups made and sold in India.

Practice Questions:

Why is the government testing all cough syrups going abroad?
Why do the exporters have to produce the certificate of analysis to the government before exporting?