A new report from CPhI of the U.S. market says that international API and drug manufacturers need to consider investing in U.S. manufacturing sites as drugmakers look to source products in the U.S. because of concerns over quality in some other countries. It says that "for contract manufacturing, the U.S. market is now as hot as it has been at any other time in the last 10 years, with a scramble occurring across international players to get a domestic manufacturing foothold in the market," especially in specialized areas such as biologics. Release
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