Police Name Afi Farma, Samudra Chemical Suspects in Children's Kidney Failure Case
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17 November 2022 21:48 WIB
Meanwhile, CV Samudra Chemical is charged with violating Law 11/2020 on Job Creation concerning health and Law 8/1999 on Consumer Protection, facing up to 15 years in prison and a maximum fine of Rp2 billion.
Dedi said investigators would investigate the possibility of Afi Farma having other suppliers of propylene glycol (PG) that met the quality standards for drug manufacturing.
BPOM: Two Other Companies Also Named as Suspects
Previously, the Health Ministry stated that EG, DEG and EGBE contamination was the cause of cases of acute kidney failure in children, which reached hundreds between August and October.
According to the Ministry's data, 324 children suffered acute kidney injuries, 195 of them dying. As of now, 27 are still being treated. All of them, the ministry said, had one thing in common: consuming syrups contaminated with EG, DEG and EGBE.
The BPOM had released a list of drugs suspected of being the cause of increasing acute kidney failure in children. Apart from PT Afi Farma, there are two other drug manufacturers whose syrup drugs were contaminated with these hazardous chemicals: PT Yarindo Farmatama and PT Universal Pharmaceutical Industries.
BPOM head Penny K Lukito said the two companies had also been named as suspects.
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