Bhopal/Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 6 (PTI) The Madhya Pradesh Government on Monday transferred the state’s drug controller and suspended three officials amid the probe into the death of 14 children, linked to the consumption of a contaminated cough syrup.

Taking precautionary measures, some states ramped up actions to stop the consumption and supply of Coldrif cough syrup following reports of deaths linked to the syrup.

The Kerala Health Department ordered that no medicines should be given to children under 12 without a doctor’s prescription, the move coming after concerns over certain cough syrups.

The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration appealed to the people to stop the sale or use of Coldrif syrup from the specific batch identified by the Tamil Nadu authorities as “injurious." The

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