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Examples
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The managing director of the "My Pikin" factory and eight others have been charged with negligence.
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My Pikin, a Nigerian-made product, is administered mostly to teething children to relieve sore gums.
IRIN 2009
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Lagos - In 2008, as many as a thousand children were hospitalised with diarrhoea and vomiting after taking "My Pikin" teething syrup.
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The My Pikin saga was a highly publicised example of unsafe medication, but many other cases of counterfeit or adulterated drugs and other products go mainly unreported.
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"What actually happened in the My Pikin saga was that though there are internal quality control units in the companies which should test every batch, the company in question did not do this," she told IPS.
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The ministry said in a statement late Thursday that 111 children have been sickened since the poisonous batch of "My Pikin Baby Teething Mixture" hit shelves in November.
CTV News RSS Feed 2009
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The Chief Ex-ecutive Officer, Barewa Pharmaceutical Limited, makers of the killer My Pikin Baby Teething Mixture, which killed no fewer than 80 children in the country, Mr. Kola Gbadegbesin Okunlola, the company and two of its senior officers, were yesterday arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on a six-count charge of conspiracy, adulteration, selling of dangerous drugs with the intent to cause death.
Vanguard News 2009
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In each of these hospitals, 'My Pikin' had been administered to children.
IRIN 2009
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The children were stricken with fever, convulsions, diarrhea and vomiting and were unable to urinate after being given the My Pikin Baby Teething Mixture.
unknown title 2009
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There have been 111 reported cases of children who have fallen ill after being given teething syrup "My Pikin".
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