New Delhi: Pharmaceutical major Pfizer has discontinued manufacture and sale of popular cough syrup Corex with immediate effect after the government banned fixed dose combination of Chlopheniramine Maleate+ Codeine Syrup.

"This is to inform you that the Government of India vide Notification... dated March 10, 2016... has prohibited the manufacture for sale, sale and distribution of fixed dose combination of Chlopheniramine Maleate + Codeine Syrup with immediate effect," Pfizer said in a BSE filing on Monday.