Srinagar, Oct 8: Amidst the ongoing national outrage due to child deaths linked to cough syrups, authorities in J&K have ramped up market surveillance to ensure the drugs under scanner are not being sold here.

The steps, meant to safeguard lives, will be carried out in all districts, the authorities said, adding that doctors and pharmaceutical shop operators must ensure not to dispense such drugs to young children.

Talking to Greater Kashmir, Commissioner, Food and Drug Control Organisation, Smita Sethi, said that intensive inspections were underway across J&K to ensure no suspicious products, including Coldrif cough syrup, which has come under scanner after deaths of children in some states of India, are available for sale.

“We are carrying out thorough market inspections for over-the-

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