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Dozens of children in India have died after allegedly consuming contaminated cough syrup, according to multiple local news reports

Reuters stated that Tamil Nadu-based company Sresan Pharmaceuticals' Coldrif syrup contained toxic diethylene glycol (DEG) in quantities nearly 500 times the permissible limit

Following the deaths, the owner of Sresan Pharmaceuticals, S. Ranganathan, has since been arrested

Dozens of children in India have died after allegedly consuming contaminated cough syrup, according to multiple local news reports.

Over the past month, the children, all under the age of 5, died in the central state of Madhya Pradesh after consuming cough medicine linked to Tamil Nadu-based company Sresan Pharmaceuticals, according to Reuters .

The news agency stated th

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