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Govt Working Group Calls for Switching Contract Manufacturing of Long-Listed Drugs to Generic Production
A government working group is set to call for tapping contract manufacturing facilities for off-patent trade-name drugs to produce generics in order to achieve a higher generic rate in Japan. The working group of the government’s administrative reform panel is…
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