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Shipments Restricted or Suspended for 22.4% of Products in July, No Sign of Improvement: FPMAJ
Shipments were restricted or suspended for 22.4% of all products in Japan in July, largely unchanged from 22.3% the previous month, according to the latest supply survey conducted by the Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Associations of Japan (FPMAJ). The survey…
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