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Global import safety cooperation urged

Sustainability

Friday, April 06, 2012

A report released this week by a committee of the Institute of Medicine urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and its overseas counterparts from the top industrialized nations to work together to help developing countries improve their regulatory systems for food and drug oversight. The discovery of a counterfeit version of the cancer drug Avastin earlier this year further underscored the challenges for U.S. regulators as imports increasingly dominate the American market...

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