About nine children succumbed to death in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, and two children in Rajasthan -- one in Bharatpur and another in Sikar after consuming counterfeit cough syrup in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

Even as reports cited the presence of Diethylene Glycol (DEG) or Ethylene Glycol (EG) -- linked with injury to kidneys, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, in an official statement, clarified that the cough syrups were not contaminated with the toxic chemicals.

The clarification is based on an investigation by “a joint team consisting of representatives from National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), National Institute of Virology (NIV), Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), etc”.

The team collected various samples in coordination with the state authorit

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