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Choseido’s Kawauchi Plant Suspended for 1 Month on GMP Violation
Choseido Pharmaceutical on March 27 was slapped with a business suspension and improvement order lasting 32 days targeting its Kawauchi Plant over a violation of the GMP regulations involving an oral cephem antibiotic. The government of Tokushima Prefecture, western Japan,…
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