India’s drug regulator claimed that the samples of Maiden Pharma’s cough syrups which caused the deaths of children in Gambia were not contaminated with diethylene glycol (DEG) and ethylene glycol (EG) and also called World Health Organization (WHO) for "prematurely" blaming an Indian company for the deaths without verification. In the letter to World Health Organization’s director of regulation and prequalification Rogerio Gaspar, Drugs Controller General VG Somani said that a technical committee constituted by the Government of India found that "the products have been found not to have been contaminated with DEG or EG as per the test reports."
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