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MHLW Sets Out Plan to Ease Export Ban for Plasma Fraction Products
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) plans to ease a long-standing export ban on blood plasma fraction products to allow such exports, excluding immunoglobulin and albumin preparations, in response to a call from a ministry task force on…
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