Pharmacy and Poisons Board · Kenya
DEA-KE-2025-0005
Tier 1 · Regulator-publishedUnclassifiedRecallStatus · active
- Issuing authority
- Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB)
- Authority reference
- REC/2025/005
- Date issued
- 10 Mar 2025
- Recorded by us
- 2026-09-06 18:40:27 UTC
- Product
- Shaltoux Herbal Cough Syrup
- INN / active substance
- Diphenhydramine Hydrochloride, Ammonium Chloride, Sodium Citrate & Menthol
- Dosage form
- Not stated by the issuing authority
- Strength
- Not stated by the issuing authority
- Manufacturer
- Gopaldas Visram & Company Limited, India
- Manufacturer country
- Not stated by the issuing authority
- MAH or importer
- Not stated by the issuing authority
- Batch numbers
- 24011
- Expiry dates
- Not published with the notice
- Action type
- Recall
- Classification
- Not stated by the issuing authority
- Indicative severity
- Not assessed by Drug Eye Africa
- Defect category
- Particulate matter
- Product type
- Medicine
- ATC code
- Not stated by the issuing authority
- Affected markets
- Kenya — no market beyond the issuing country was named on the notice
- Cross-border event
- Not linked to a cross-border event
- Notice text
- Market complaints of presence particulate matter in the productOriginal language: en
- Status
- Active
- Superseded by
- Not superseded. This is the current version.
- Version
- 4
Where this record came from, and what is held to show it.
- Primary source
- https://web.pharmacyboardkenya.org/shaltoux/
- Copy of the source
- Taken and held by Drug Eye Africa, so the record survives the link above being moved or withdrawn. Not yet published at an address you can open.Ask us for it and check it against the fingerprint below.
- Fingerprint
- a3229299f5c4dba9ec3ba3dc37435ce9bc7b0adeba4a1dd40d9cee725e40b85cSHA-256 of the copy held. Any file that produces this number is that copy, byte for byte; any file that does not is a different document.
- Copy taken
- 2026-09-06 22:56:54 UTC
| Reference | Date | Ctry | Product | Batches | Action | Class | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEA-RW-2025-38192882 | 20 Aug 2025 | RW | Lidocaine 2% injection 30ml Merit Organic Ltd (India) | I02171 | Recall | Class II | Tier 1 · Regulator-published |
| DEA-KE-2025-0028 | 20 Aug 2025 | KE | Paradol Dinlas Pharma | 240831 · 240181 · 240158 · 230215 · 240051 · 230172 · 240213 | Recall | Unclassified | Tier 1 · Regulator-published |
| DEA-RW-2025-94679536 | 15 Jul 2025 | RW | Lidocaine 2% injection 30ml Merit Organic Ltd (India) | I02161 | Recall | Class II | Tier 1 · Regulator-published |
| DEA-RW-2025-83945852 | 15 Jul 2025 | RW | Lidocaine 2% injection 30ml Merit Organic Ltd (India) | I02173 | Recall | Class II | Tier 1 · Regulator-published |
| DEA-RW-2025-78615184 | 15 Jul 2025 | RW | Lidocaine 2% injection 30ml Merit Organic Ltd (India) | I02166 | Recall | Class II | Tier 1 · Regulator-published |
| DEA-RW-2025-67911025 | 15 Jul 2025 | RW | Lidocaine 2% injection 30ml Merit Organic Ltd (India) | I02172 | Recall | Class II | Tier 1 · Regulator-published |
Cite this record
Drug Eye Africa (2025). DEA-KE-2025-0005: Shaltoux Herbal Cough Syrup — Recall, Pharmacy and Poisons Board. Register of African Regulatory Actions. https://drugeyeafrica.org/register/notice/ke/2025/dea-ke-2025-0005Version history
—No version history recorded for this record.
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Verification
Tier 1 — Published by the issuing regulator on its own channel and captured by Drug Eye Africa, with the source document archived.
Indexing
This record is indexable: it is dated, names a product, and carries either a batch number or a stated reason.