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India pharma quality lapses force U.S. to look to China for vital drugs


Toxic medications, burned records, analog systems dim prospects for world's third largest pharmacy

Special Reports Toxic medications, burned records, analog systems dim prospects for world's third largest pharmacy In the final weeks of 2022, a small team of inspectors from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were far from home, investigating a pharmaceutical factory in western India. Indian drugmaker Intas was making cancer drugs for the United States at the plant where, in a trash bin, inspectors found documents doused in acetic acid.

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