Tainted teething drug kills 25 children

Teething formula tainted with a toxic thickening agent has killed 25 children in Nigeria, prompting regulators to clear it from shelves and shut down its manufacturer.

The national food and drug administration was scouring Africa’s most populous country for about 3,000 bottles of My Pikin Baby Teething Mixture, which had been inadvertently tainted with diethylene glycol, the agency’s head said.