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Pfizer’s Methotrexate 1000 mg Hit by Stock-Out on Flaws at German Manufacturing Site
Pfizer Japan has exhausted its inventory of Methotrexate Injection 1000 mg due to a temporary manufacturing halt at its German production site caused by flawed testing. This has triggered a shipment control for the drug’s 200 mg version in Japan,…
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