Urna Chakraborty

Diethylene glycol poisoning: a narrative review of mechanism of toxicity, detection methods, regulatory failures and recurrent mass poisonings

Abstract Background Diethylene glycol is a toxic industrial solvent with no therapeutic application, yet it continues to contaminate pharmaceutical syrups through adulteration of excipients such as glycerin and propylene glycol. Its low cost and visual indistinguishability from p...