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S. Africa ratchets up protection for domestic drugmakers

Warning to pharma companies aiming to sell key drugs in South Africa: Only domestic drugmakers need apply.

Fake Avastin adds urgency to foreign-drug importation probe

Identifying distributors in a supply chain that may have ushered phony Avastin into the U.S. has stepped up interest in a broader investigation of foreign-drug imports, The Wall Street Journal says.

Daiichi grimaces at Ranbaxy, FDA consent decree

Ranbaxy Labs has ended three years of pharma industry suspense by entering into a consent decree with the FDA over manufacturing quality control. In an announcement, CEO Arun Sawhney said he's

Foreign-made drug crisis coming, FDA tells Congress

If U.S. lawmakers wanted reassurance that the pharma supply chain is secure, then they must have been disappointed. At a Capitol Hill hearing yesterday, the Government Accountability Office warned

Vietnamese officials crack down on substandard drugs

As if taking a cue from the American Enterprise Institute report on substandard drugs, the Vietnam Drug Administration yesterday suspended some medications from circulation for failing to meet

FDA looks to meet challenges posed by imports

The FDA has unveiled a new strategy that it says will help it meet the challenges posed by the increased number of imports it regulates, as well as a complex global supply chain. The strategy is

Big pharma objects to India's pricing request

India is clamping down on price hikes by global drugmakers. It has nixed increases on imports when manufacturers won't share pricing details. Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk are among the multinationals