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NewsWhore
08-01-2007, 05:40 PM
The increase in the market for illegal medicines, supplied mostly by contraband medicines, keeps the country from providing guarantees that medicines that have been discontinued by the United States Food and Drug Administration are not on local shelves. Local producers, importers and public health authorities are in agreement in pointing out the different controls that are in place within the legal framework, where no discontinued medicine or medical product banned in its country of origin or by the FDA is allowed to obtain a legal registry in this country. In a statement to reporters from Listin Diario, the Association of Dominican Pharmacological Industries (INFADOMI) said that its 34 pharmacological laboratories only used ingredients that carry national or international approvals.

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