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Indian company denies tampering with tests in cough syrup death probe

NEW DELHI: India’s Maiden Pharmaceuticals, whose cough syrups have been linked to the deaths of children in Gambia, denied on Saturday that it falsified test samples or bribed officials to do so, according to a complaint under investigation by local health officials. A Haryana State Food and Drug Administration researcher said Reuters on Friday was nearing completion of an investigation into whether a state drug regulator was bribed to change samples, tested by the Indian government, that contradicted the World Health Organization’s findings of toxic substances in cough syrups. “I have never changed the sample,” said Maiden founder Naresh Kumar