If you think that medicines that you are giving to your children to kill those disease causing viruses and the medicines are always safe, then you have all the reasons to know that many of kids’ medicines are found to be containing additives.
According to a research conducted by the Food Commission, many medicines aimed at kids below 3 are found to be containing additives, colors and sweeteners which were initially banned from children’s food. Medicines that were found adulterated include: Morrisons Junior Paracetemol and Superdrug Junior Paracetemol Suspension, contained four different sweeteners.
Despite the ban on all kinds of sweeteners, colors and additives in food products aimed at toddlers, children’s medicines contained a ‘cocktail of additives’, which included synthetic azo dyes, that too without any warnings. Only one medicine read a warning stating the coloring could cause ‘allergic reactions, including asthma’.
Though the medicine might not react to all the kids, but those who are allergic to certain additives might have serious complications owing to this.
This charge against the medicine manufacturers triggered a debate, where the researchers promoted the usage of natural sweeteners and coloring agents while the manufacturers maintained that the additives make the medicine palatable by reducing the unpleasant taste and smell of the medicine and making it easier for parents to make their kids eat those medicines.
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