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All 11 Manufacturers Pull Ranitidine from Shelves, “Class I” Recalls for 9 Firms
All 11 manufacturing authorization holders of ranitidine-contained drugs in Japan have now launched voluntary recalls for their products over their potential contamination with a cancer-causing impurity called N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), with nine of them having issued most-urgent “Class I” recalls by…
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