Current Affairs - Quality Lapses In Pharma Manufacturing Quiz

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Quality Lapses in Pharma Manufacturing Quiz

Around 70 Children died in Gambia due to cough syrup manufactured by an Indian Pharma Company. These incidents put a significant impact on the brand image of the whole pharma industry. It impacts pharma company’s Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing, and all other departments.

With this quiz, you can update yourself with the latest updates on this incident.

No. of Questions: 10

Who can participate: Pharma Manufacturing, QA/QC, Working Professionals, Students and anyone related to pharma can participate.

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Quality Lapses In Pharma Manufacturing Quiz

1 / 10

As per reports, Cough syrups manufactured by the India-based company allegedly might have killed around ______ children in Gambia.

a) 70

b) 33

c) 60

d) 44

2 / 10

__________ children died in the Udhampur district of Jammu due to contaminated cough syrup, manufactured by a company in Himachal Pradesh.

a) 48

b) 32

c) 12

d) 20

3 / 10

The Haryana government sent samples of the four cough syrups manufactured by the alleged company to the _____________________.

a) Chemical Research Lab, Pune

b) Chemical Institute, Pune

c) Central Drugs Laboratory (CDL), Kolkata.

d) CDSCO Center of Research, Mumbai

4 / 10

Excipients Glycerin contaminated with DEG can lead to Acute kidney injury which is usually the main cause of death, which occurs anywhere between 8 and 24 hours after exposure if the dose is high.

a) True

b) False

5 / 10

Major functions of CDSCO:

a) All

b) Meetings of the Drugs Consultative Committee (DCC)

c) Meetings Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB)

d) Approval of new drugs and clinical trials

e) Regulatory control over the import of drugs

6 / 10

The chemicals that were suspected to be present as contaminants in the cough syrups responsible for the Quality Issue:

a) None

b) Ethylene glycol

c) Both

d) Diethylene glycol

7 / 10

Which of the following intravenous anaesthetics is implicated in the issue of PGIMER deaths in September 2022?

a) Ketamine

b) Lidocaine

c) Etomidate

d) Propofol

8 / 10

_______ deaths are recently reported to have occurred at the PGIMER after anaesthesia was administered.

a) 5

b) 7

c) 6

d) 9

9 / 10

The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) is India's national regulatory body for:

a) Cosmetics

b) Pharmaceuticals

c) All

d) Medical devices

10 / 10

Gambia where recently the death of children had taken place due to contaminated cough syrup, is a country in ______________

a) North Australia

b) West Canada

c) West Africa

d) East Egypt

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