New Delhi: The State Drug Testing Laboratory of Tamil Nadu has detected diethylene glycol (DEG) beyond permissible limits in samples of the cough syrup allegedly linked to the deaths of nine children in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district.

The samples were collected from the drugmaker---Kanchipuram based manufacturing premises, following a request from the Madhya Pradesh government.

Notably a day before this announcement samples of the syrup tested by CDSCO and the MP state drug regulator were “found to be free of DEG/EG” contaminants.

Giving the clarification on the stand the Union Health ministry in a statement noted that, the results of testing of these samples (those by the TN FDA) were shared with us late evening, yesterday i.e. October 3 2025.

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