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Mr Sato of PFSB Stresses Need for MAH to Strengthen Ties, Communications with Overseas Drug Substance Manufacturers: PDA Japan Annual Meeting
In a talk presented at the 19th annual meeting of the Parenteral Drug Association-Japan Chapter on December 12, Daisaku Sato, director of compliance office, Compliance and Narcotics Division, Pharmaceutical and Food Safety Bureau (PFSB) of the Ministry of Health, Labor…
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