The Quality Lowdown: Problems At Iso-Tex, Centaur, Biocon, Lupin And US Specialty
Executive Summary
Hot, humid clean rooms, drug-caked equipment, stuck syringes, iffy contraceptives and iffy GMPs were among the pharmaceutical quality shortcomings that surfaced recently.
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